BUCEROTID^ 



BYCANISTES 



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1864, p. 326 [Zambesi] ; Lmjard, B. S. Aft: p. 226 (1867); Sharpe, 

 ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 125 (1875) ; W. Ayres, Ibis, 1887, p. 51 

 [Zoutspansberg] ; Shelley. Ibis, 1888, p. 53. 



Bycanistes buccinator, Elliot, Monogr. Bucerof. pi. 27 (1880) ; Grant, 

 Cat. B. M. xvii, p. 421 (1892); Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 113 (1896); 

 Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 101 (1899) ; id. Ibis, 1900, p. 520 

 [St. Lucia Lake] ; Alexander, Ibis, 1900, p. 100 [Shupanga] . 



" Ikanati " of Natal Zulus. 



Description. Adult male. — General colour above, black glossed 

 witb dark green ; a considerable crest, some of the feathers of which 



Fig. 35. — Bycanistes buccinator. 



are sometimes streaked with grey ; edge of the wing, broad tips 

 to the inner primaries, outer secondaries, slight tips to the inner 

 secondaries, rump and upper tail-coverts, tips of all the tail-feathers 

 except the central pair, white ; ear-coverts silvery, rest of the head, 

 throat, upper breast and sides of the body like the back ; lower 

 breast and rest of the under surface white. 



Iris dark red ; bill with a very large casque separated from the 

 tipper mandible anteriorly, knife-shaped in front reaching to the 

 tip of the mandible, black ; naked skin round the eye pinkish-flesh ; 

 feet black. 



