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to the tarsal joint, the greater primary-coverts have white ends, and 

 the back is glossed with purple as well as green ; the casque is 

 abruptly truncated in front, not produced forward into a point as 

 in B, albotihialis ; nuked skin round the eye and throat red ; iris 

 crimson ; legs and feet dusky ; bill and casque yellowish white. 

 Total length 28 inches, wing 13, tail 8-8, tarsus 1-8. 

 Hah. N. Africa, Gaboon to Liberia. 



«• Ad. sk. Fantee (Ussher). Sharpe Coll. 



b. Ad. St. W. Africa. 



c. Head only. No loo. (Type of Buceros camarinus.) 



7. Bycanistes buccinator. 



Buceros bucinator, Temm. Fl. Col. ii. p. 93, pi. 284 (1824). 

 Buceros buccinator, IVagl. Si/st. Av. Buceros, no. 12 (1827) ; Less. 



Traite Oni. p. 253 (1831) ; Gray, Gen. Birds, ii. p. 399 (1847) ; 



Gurneij, Ibis, 1861, p. 133 ; 8chl. Mus. Pays-B(is, i. Buceros, p. 17 



(1862) ; Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 326 ; Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 226 (1867) ; 



Finsch Si Hartl. Voy. Ostafr. p. 484 (1870) ; Elliot, Ibis, 1873, 



p. 179 ; Sharpe, ed. Lai/ard's B. S. Afr. p. 120 (1875) ; Bocage, Orn. 



Am/ola, p. 540 (1881); Finsch, J.' f. O. 1885, p. 126; Ay res, Ibis, 



1887, p. 51 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 53. 

 Bucorvus buccinator, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p 89 (1850). 

 Tmetoceros buccinator, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anisod. p. 2 (1854). 

 Bycanistes buccinator, Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 171 (1860) ; 



Cab. V. d. Deckens Reis. iii. p. 38 (1869) ; Elliot, Mon. Bucerot. 



pi. 27 [text] (1880) ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 591. 

 Buceros (Bycanistes) buccinator, Dubois, Bull. Mus. Bely. iii. p. 200 



(1884). 



A'luU male. Ear-coverts grey ; some of the feathers on the sides 

 of the head and crest with grey centre streaks ; rest of head, the 

 neck, chest, back, wings, and tail black glossed with green ; the 

 bases of all the quills, the ends of the last two primaries, of all the 

 secondaries, and of the tail-feathers, except the middle pair, white ; 

 the long scapulars are sometimes tipped with white ; inner side of 

 shoulders, rump, breast, belly, thighs, and tail -coverts white: 

 naked skin round eye and on the unfeathered parts of the throat 

 purple (reddish in skin) ; iris red ; legs and feet blackish ; bill and 

 casque blackish, the anterior extremity of the latter produced in a 

 point extending nearly as far as the end of the bill. Total length 

 25 inches, wing 11-5, tail 8'3, tarsus 1-6. 



Adult female. Plumage similar to the above; but the bill and 

 cascjue are much smaller, and the anterior part of the casque is 

 abruptly truncated above the middle of the bill. Total length 21*3 

 inches, wing 10-2, tail 8-2, tarsus 1-6. 



In younger examples the lores and front of the head are mixed 

 with chestnut, otherwise the plumage is the same. 



J Jab. East Africa south of the Eijuator to Natal, Kingwilliams- 

 town, the Knysna in Ca^ie ColoTiy, and northwards to Angola. 



