412 BUCKROTlDiE. 



Hah. DamuraLuid, S. Africa. 



a. <S ad. sli. Otjimbinquo, Damaraland (Amlersson) . Sharpe Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



b. J ad. sk. Sclimek'U3 Hope, Damaralaud, Jan. Sliarpe Coll. 



[Aiulerssun). 



13. Lophoceros flavirostris. 



Buceros flavirostris, liiipp. Faun. Ab}/ss., J'o(/el, p. (5, pi. ii. tio;. 2 

 (1835) ; Graij, Gen. Birds, ii. p. 400 (1847) ; Spake, Ibis, 1860, 

 p. 244 ; Finsch Sf Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 490 (1870) ; Finsch, Tr. 

 Z. S. vii. p. 278 (1870) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pp. 725 & civ 

 (1871). 



Tockus flavirostris, liiipp. Si/st. Uebers. J by. N.O.-Afr. p. 79 (1845) ; 

 Boiiap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 92 (1850); id. Consp. Vol. A?iisod. 

 p. 3 ( 1854) ; Ilorsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. hid. Co. ii. p. 696 

 (1856-58); Blanf. Geol. Sf Zool. Ahjss. p. 327 (1870); Sharpe, 

 Cat. Afr. B. p. 9 [part.] (1871); Elliot, Mon. Bucerot. pi. 51 

 [text, part.] (18/7) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genuv. pp. 104, 202 

 (1884). 



Rhyuchaceros flavirostris. Cab. J.f. O. 1878, p. 235. 



Alophius flavirostris, Dubois, Bull. Mus. Behj. iii. p. 218 [part.J 

 (1884). 



Lophoceros flavirostris, Shelleij, Ibis, 1888, p. 67. 



Adult male. Top of the head blackish brown ; lores, broad stripe 

 over the eye, and chest white with black shaft-stripes ; ear-coverts 

 grey, with black shaft-stripes and narrowly edged with the same 

 colour ; rest of plumage on face, throat, neck, and down the middle 

 line of the upper half of tho back, also breast, rest of underparts, 

 bases of quills, and inner under wing-coverts white ; rest of back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts black ; wing-coverts black with white 

 subterminal spots ; long scapulars brownish black ; primaries and 

 secondaries black, spotted with white on the middle of both webs 

 (the first two primaries and the last primaries and secondaries ex- 

 cepted), the spots gradually increasing in size till on the fifth, sixth, 

 and seventh secondaries they form large Avhite lateral patches, these 

 feathers are also widely tipped with white ; the middle and second 

 pairs of tail-feathers are black, the three outer pairs are black, 

 widely tipped with white and with a bar an iucli and a half wide 

 across the middle ; naked skin round the eye dusky, and on the 

 unfeathered parts of the tliroat pink (yellow in skin); iris pale 

 yellow ; legs dusky ; bill and slight casque orange-yellow, the end 

 of the bill and cutting-edge of the mandibles dark reddish black. 

 Total length 21 inches, wing 8"4, tail 9-2, tarsus 1'6. 



Advil female. Does not differ in plumage from the adult male, 

 but the bare skin of the throat is dusky like that round the eye. 

 Total length 19 inches, wing 7'7, tail 8"G, tarsus 1-6. 



IUd<. E. Africa, between about 15° N. lat. and 5^ 8. hit. 



a. Ad. sk. Abyssinia. Hume Coll. 



b,c. S 9- ^^- ^^- Undel Wells, April (Jesse). Sharpe & Shelley Coll. 



d. S ad. sk. Sooroo (Jesse). Tweeddale Coll. 



