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Genus TROPIDORHYNCHUS, Vigors and Horsf. 



The law of representation in Australia appears to be chiefly 

 confined to the species inhabiting the eastern and western 

 coasts, but in this case it takes the opposite direction, for 

 more singular and perfect representations cannot be found 

 than the T. cornicidatiis and 1\ citreogulans of the south- 

 eastern parts of the country, are of the T. argenticeps and T. 

 sordidus of the north-western ; another species, T. buceroides, 

 inhabits the north-east coast, and others are found in New 

 Guinea and the neighbouring islands. 



Sp.334. TROPIDORHYNCHUS CORNICULATUS, 



Fig. and Horsf. 



Friar Bird. 



Merops corniculatus, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 276. 



Corbi calao, Le Vaill. Ois. d'Am. et des Indes., torn. i. p. 69, pi. 24. 



Knob-fronted Honey-eater, Lath. Gen. Hist.^ vol. iv. p. 16L 



Bee-eater, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 151. 



Tropidorhynchus corniculatus, Vig, and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. 



p. 324. 

 Merops monachus, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xxxiv, young. 

 Cowled Bee-eater, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 155. 



Honey-eater, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 162, young. 



Knob-fronted Bee-eater, White's Voy., pi. in p. 190, young. 

 Coldong, Aborigines of New South Wales. 

 Friar, Poor Soldier, ^c, of the Colonists. 

 Buceros corniculatus, Temm. 



Tropidorhynchus corniculatus, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., 

 vol. iv. pi. 58. 



There are few birds more familiarly known in the colony of 

 New South Wales than this remarkable species of Honey- 

 eater : it is generally dispersed over the face of the country, 

 both in the thick brushes near the coast and in the more open 



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