422 BtrCEEOTlD^. 



(I. d ? "d. st. South Africa (Hoj)e). Purcliased. 



/(. Iiimi. sk. t'iipe. Purchased. 



c, d. Ad. et innn. sk. Kinswilliani.stown. l.t. Trevelyan [P.]. 



e,f. (S ? imni. sk. Dnrhan, Aug. (Govdge). Shelley Coll. 



a (S ad. sk. Oliphauts R., Transvaal, J. H. Gurney, Esq. 



July ( T. Ayres). \\\\ 



h. S ad. i<k. Zamhesi. Sir John Kirk [P.]. 



/. S atl. sk. Zambezi {Mcllar). Shelley Coll. 



A-. 5 ad. sk. Shuparga(A.7rA-). Earl Russell [P:]. 



/. 2 ad. sk. Paug-ani R. (Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



9«, H. gad.sk. Melinda (7j.7/-/.:). Shelley Coll. 



Skull. 



8. Bycanistes fistulator. 



Buceros fistulator, Cassin, P. Ac. Kat. Sci. Philad. v. p. 68 (1852) ; 

 Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 162 [part] (1857) ; id. J. f. O. 1801, p. 261 

 [part.] ; Schl. Miis. Pays-Ba.% i. Buceros, p. 16 (1862) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Afr. B. p. 8 [part.] (1871) ; JJssher, Ibis, 1874, p. 61 ; Reich. 

 J. f. 0. 1877, p. 19 [part.] ; Buttikofer., Notes Leyd. Mus. iv. p. 206 

 (1885) ; Hartert, J.f. 0. 1886, p. 596 ; S/ielley, Ibis, 1888, p. 53. 



Tmetoceros fistulator, Bmiap. Consp. Vol. Anisod. p. 2 (1854). 



Buceros (Bycanistes) fistulator, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 131, sp. 7913 

 (1870). 



Pholidophalus fistulator, Elliot, Mon. Bucerot. pi. 32 [text] (1878). 



Buceros (Pholidophalus) fistulator, Dubois, Bidl. Mus. Bely. iii. 

 p. 203 [part.] (1884). 



Buceros leucostigma, Temm. Mus. Lvyd., in Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, i. 

 Buceros, p. 16 (1862). 



Adult. Ear-coverts grey ; centre of most of the feathers of the 

 crest silvery ; rest of head, neck, back, rump, iipper-breast, and 

 wing-coverts black glossed with green ; inner side of shoulders, bases 

 of qnills, ends of three inner primaries and the secondaries, lower 

 breast, belly, thighs, and tail-coverts white; base of tail-feathers 

 and the terminal quarter of all except the middle pair white, remainder 

 of feathers black glossed with green : naked skin round the eye 

 purplish red ; iris dark brown ; legs and feet blackish brown, soles 

 golden ; bill golden Avhite, black in the middle of both upper and 

 under mandible. Total length 20-5 inches, wing 9-4, tail 7-3, 

 tarsus I'B. 



Bab. W. Africa, from the Niger to Senegambia. 



a. Imm.sk. Fantee (C^s*7?w). Sharpe Coll. 



b-e. Ad. et iram. sk. Fantee, Nov. (Aubi7in). Sharpe Coll. 



/. Ad. (head onlv). Fantee (Aubiu/i). Sharpe Coll. 



g. Ad. sk. ' No loc. Shelley Coll. 



9. Bycanistes sharpii. 



Buceros fistulator, Cassin, P. Acad. Kat. Sci. Philad. 1859, p. JP.O ; 



Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 134; id. Cat. Afr. Birds, p. 8 (1871) ; 



Peick. J.f. O. 1877, p. 19 [part.]. 

 Buceros sharpii, £lh'of, Ibis, 1873, pp. 177, 179; Ousfa/ef, /Y. Arch, 



Mus. (2) ii. p. 69 (1879); Bocayc, Orn. Anr/ola, p. 114(1881); 



Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 54. 



