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to 1)6 making such a clamour as to drown the sound of 

 people crashing through the underbrush beneath him, till 

 he was shot. 



No. 2618 was shot by my boys while in the act of 

 plastering up the hole in a tree where its mate probably was. 

 There was clay on its bill and on its helmet, about the tip and 

 sides. The boys said that they heard the cries of the female 

 inside the hole. I went next day to see the place and tried 

 to get a man to climb the tree, but nothing would induce 

 him to try it. The tree was large and tall, and stood apart 

 from others, and Avas really unclimbablc. The hole was so 

 high up, and so hidden by a limb and by parasitic ferns, 

 that it was invisible. Little bits of clay were strewn on the 

 ground at the foot of the tree. While I was there a pair of 

 these Hornbills, a male and a female, came flying round the 

 place. Was one the female that was being enclosed the day 

 before, which had got another mate? This male perched 

 on the limb where the hole was, which was nearly upright, 

 in the position of a Woodpecker, supported by its tail. 



A favourite food of this and other Hornbills is the fruit 

 of the Calamus palm. 



813. LoPHOCEROs FAsciATUs. [Olvwokwad.] 



Keich. V. A. ii. p. 248. 



This is the commonest of the smaller Hornbills. Indi- 

 viduals of this species are often seen in small parties, in the 

 trees left standing in the clearings and in the second-growth 

 forest, where their querulous, disagreeable cries are often 

 heard. Their Avhole appearance and manner are unpleasant. 

 Their flight is slouching and uncertain, and they seem 

 scarcely able to manage their long wings and tails properly. 

 A favourite food with them is caterpillars, especially the 

 large kinds, which the natives also eat, and the birds gather 

 around trees that are infested by them. 



843, Halcyon badius. [Akwae.] 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 429. 



While the more typical small Kingfishers of this country 

 live and breed along the streams, those of the genus halcyon 



