416 BUCEROTTDJE. 



16. Lophoceros deckeni. 



Buccros (rvliynnliaceros) deckeni. Cab. V. d. DecJcen's lieism, iii. p. 3G, 



pi. 6 (1869). 

 Buceros declceni, Finsch Sf Hartl. Vo(). Osfafr. p. 489 (1870) ; 



Bfi/im, J. f. O. 188.3, p. 170. 

 Pihvncbiiceros deckeui, Cab. J. f. O. 1870, p. 2.35, pi. 2 ; Fkch. Zeit. 



f/es. Orn. p. 362 (1884) ; id.'j.f. 0. 1885, p. 126; Eeichen. J.f. 0. 



1887, p. 60. 

 Tockus deckeni, Elliot, Mon. Bucerot. pi. 57 [text] (1881). 

 Alopbius deckeni, Dubois, Bull. Mus. Belg. iii. p. '217 (1884). 

 Lophoceros deckeni, Shelley, Ihis, 1888, p. 68. 

 Tockus bocagei, Oust. Bull. Soc. Phil. 1881, p. 161 ; Eochebrune, 



Faun. Scneffamh., Ois. p. 121, pi. xiii. 



Adult male. Lores and top of the head blackisli grey ; ear-coverts 

 white, edged with grey and with dark .shafts ; a broad superciliary 

 stripe, rest of the head, feathered parts of throat, neck, breast, 

 underparts, middle line of upper half of back, under wing-coverts, 

 and base of quills white ; rest of back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 black ; wing-coverts black, except the middle secondary coverts, 

 which are almost entirely white ; primaries black, the four centre 

 ones with a white spot on the middle of the outer web ; first four 

 secondaries black, the fifth and last three white-margined, and the 

 sixth and seventh nearly white ; middle and second pairs of tail- 

 feathers black, rest with black bases and white ends, the last 

 third of the third pair and two-thirds of the fifth pair being white ; 

 there is often a fenestra of white present in the terminal part of 

 the black ; in skin, naked skin round the eye is dusky, ou the sides 

 of the throat yellow ; legs and feet black ; basal half of bill orange- 

 red, remainder yellowish white, the end of the mandible and the 

 cutting-edge black. Total length 20 inches, wing 7*4, tail 8-8, 

 tarsus 1*7. 



Hah. E. and E.-Central Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Lamu. F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



b. S ad. sk. Taita, July {HUdebmnclt). Shelley Coll. 



c. cJ ad. sk. Taita, July. Dr. Ilildebrandt[C.], 



17. Lophoceros jacksoni. (Plate XIII.) 

 Lopboceros jacksoni, Grant, Ibis, 1891, p. 127. 



Adult male. Differs from L. deeheni in having the wing-coverts 

 ornamented with subterminal oval white spots. Total length 19"5 

 inches, wing 7'5, tail 8-G, tarsus 1-5. 



Hah. Torquel, Siik (Jackson). 



16. BYCANISTES. 



Type. 

 Bycanistes, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 171 (1860). B. buccinator. 

 Pbolidophalus, Elliot, Mon. Bucerot. pi. 32 [text] 



(1878) B. fistulator. 



