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Total length in flesh: 20^, 20^, & 20 inches. Wing: 

 229, 223, & 222 ram. 



All three are in rather worn dress. 



[Irides brown; bill black, with cream patch on sides of 

 upper mandible and streaks of same colour on lower ; legs 

 and toes black. This is one of the rarer Hornbills, and seems 

 only to be found locally.] 



The range of this race appears to extend from Senegal 

 to the Niger, eastwai'd to north-east Africa and south to 

 British E. Africa; its place in Damaraland and Nyasaland, 

 southward to the Vaal River, is taken by L. n. epirhinus 

 Sund. (CEfv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1850, p. 108 : CafFr. superiore 

 = lat. 24° S. (Wahlberg), probably nr. the upper Limpopo, 

 cf Stark & Sclater, Birds of S. Africa, vol. iii. 1903, p. 115). 

 In the Jouru. fiir Orn. 1905, p. 440, Erlanger separates 

 the Arabian and north Abyssinian bird under the name 

 L. n. forskallii Hempr. & Ehr. (Symb. Phys., Av. 1828, 

 folio 2, footnote 8 : Arabia), and certainly the two male 

 specimens before me from southern Arabia have larger 

 bills and are generally larger than specimens of true 

 L. n. nasutus. 



However, one male before me from Geragi, White Nile, is 

 identical in every way with the Arabian birds : so until 

 further material comes to hand it cannot be definitely 

 settled as to how far this name can hold good. 



Since the above was written 1 have seen the description 

 of Lophoceros nasutus maraisi Roberts (Ann. Transv. Mus. 

 vol. iv. 1914, p. 170 : nr. Bagamoyo, German East Africa); 

 which is similar in size and colour to L. n. nasutus, but 

 smaller, having a wing in the male of 202 ram. There are no 

 specimens in the British Museum from German East Africa, 

 and Dr. Hartert has kindly informed nie that the Tring 

 Museum does not possess any either. 



As this race has been founded principally on size, I 

 append for comparative purposes the wing-measurements of 

 all the adult males in the British Museum collection: — 

 Gambia, 221; Portuguese Guinea, 221, 218; Gold Coast 

 colony, 229, 222, 219, 214; Nigeria, 222, 197; Welle 



