404 BrCRROTIDiE, 



which are drab-brown margined with white ; middle and second 

 pairs of tail-feathers blackish brown, rest white, with some black 

 on the basal part of the third and fifth pairs : bill, very long and 

 strong, yellowish red, becoming dark purple towards the extremities 

 of the mandibles. Total length 23-4 inches, wing 8-9, tail 9-2, 

 tarsus 2. 



Adult female does not differ from the adult male in plumage, 

 but the bill is not nearly so long and strong. Total length 21 inches, 

 wing 7*8, tail 8-8, tarsus 2. 



Hah. S. Africa, Damaraland and Benguela. 



Sbarpe Coll. 



C. J. Andersson, Esq. [C.]. 

 C. J. Andersson, Esq. [C.]. 

 J. J. Monteiro, Esq. [G.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



G. Lophoceros camurus. 



Tockus camurus, Cassin, P. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 18-57, p. 319, 

 1859, p. 140 ; Heine, J. f. O. 1860, p. 188 ; Reichen. J. f. O, 

 1875, p. 13; Bouvier, Cat'. Ois. Marcke,etc. p. 20 (1875) ; Bocar/e. 

 Oi-n. Angola, p. 641 (1881) ; ElUot, Mem. Bucerot. pi. 59 [text] 

 (1880) ; ^harpe, J. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 436 (1884). 



Buceros camurus, Reichen. J. f. O. 1877, p. 18 ; Biittikofer, Notes 

 Leyd. Mus. iv. p. 210 (1885). 



Alophius camurus, Dubois, Bull. Mus. Belg. iii. p. 220 (1884). 



Lophoceros camurus, Slielleij, His, 1888, p. 62 ; Reich. J. f. O. 1890, 

 p. 116. 



Buceros pulchrirostris, Schl. Ned. Tijd. Bierk. i. p. 74, pi. 4 (1862) ; 

 Schl. Mus. Paijs-Bas, i. Buceros, p. 15 (1862) ; Shnrpe, Cat. Afr. 

 B. p. 9 (1871). 



Tockus pulchrirostris, »S7i«)7:>c, Ibis, 1870, p. 485; id. P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 604. 



Adult. Head, neck, back, and under wing-coverts rufous-brown, 

 shading to rufous on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; 

 feathers of the chest brown with white ends, rest of undcrparts 

 white, thighs mixed with brownish buff; wing-coverts brown, lesser 

 with more or less marked subterminal white spots, median and 

 greater with white ends forming two oblique white bars across the 

 wing ; base of the quills buff ; primaries blackish, the first two and 

 the last three spotted with buff on the inner wch only, the remainder 

 on both ; secondaries blackish brown slightly glossed, edged on the 

 outer web and sjjotted on the inner with buff, except the last three 

 secondaries, which have a complete buff margin ; the tail is brown 

 slightly glossed, narrowly margined with buff and tipped with white. 

 Total length 11 inches, wing G'l, tail 5'5, tarsus 1-2. 



BiU bright scarlet. In some specimens the point of the bill is 

 black ; whether or not this is characteristic of age or sex is unknown. 



Hab, Western and Central Africa. 



