191 7-1 Birds from British East Africa. 399 



Upupa africana. 



Upiipd africana Bechst. Kurze Uebers. iv. 1811, p. 172 

 [Congo & Cape] ; C. Grant, Ibis, 1915, p. 279. 

 ? . Tsavo River. 21st July. Wing 135 mm. 

 ?. „ 21th July. „ 130 mm. 



Iris (lark brown ; legs slate-colour. 

 In open bush country. Not often seen. 



Bycanistes bucinator. 



Buceros bucinator Tenmi. PI. Col. -18 Livr. 1824, pi. 284 

 [Cape]. 



Bycanistes bucinator Reichw. Vog. Afr. ii. 1902, p. 243. 



I did not secure specimens of the Trumpeter Hornbill, but 

 several were seen on the Tliika and on the Tsavo. 



Bycanistes cristatus. 



Buceros cristatus Riipp. Neue Wirb. iii. 1835, p. 3, pi. i. 

 [Kordofan]. 



Bycanistes a'istatus Reichw. Vog. Afr. ii. 1902, p. 240. 



Tins large Hornbill was common at Thika and in the 

 Ithanga Hills. It kept to the high trees by the river. 

 I never secured one though I made many attempts. 



Lophoceros deckeni. 



Buceros deckeni Cab. in Von der Decken, Reisen, Vogel, 

 iii. 1869, pt. 1, p. 37, pi. vi. [German East Africa]. 



Lophoceros deckeni C. Grant, Ibis, 1915, p. 274, text- 

 fig. 3 a. 



(J ? ? . Tsavo River. 22nd July. Wing, ^ 180, ? 163, 

 175 mm. 



? . Tsavo River. 23rd July. Wing 185 mm. 



Iris dark brown ; bill (male) black, (female) red on the 

 basal half, white on the terminal half ; legs black. 



Von der Decken^s Hornbill was abundant. 



I am afraid 1 cannot follow Claude Grant's remarks on 

 Lophoceros deckeni smd jacksoni, Ibis, 1915, pp. 275-6. His 

 description of the bill of the female L. deckeni, i.e. "obliquely 

 truncated, not curved," seems to be in direct opposition to his 

 own figure, where L.jacksoni is shown as the truncated one. 



