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1062. Lophoceros birostris, The Common Grey Hornhill. 

 Biiceros birostris, Scop. Del. Flor. et Fmm. Insub. ii, p. 87 (1786) ; 



Bhjth, J.A.S. B. xvi, p. 995 ; id. Cat. p. 44. 

 Biiceros ginginianiis, Latham, Ind. Dm. i, p. 146 (1790) ; Blyth, 



J. A. 8. B. xii, p. 996. 

 Tockus bicornis, Horsf. ^ M. Cat. ii, p. 597 (185&-8). 

 Meniceros bicornis, Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 248 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 3oU ; 



King, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. 2, p. 214; Home, P. Z. S. 1869, 



p. 241 ; C. 8r G. Marshall, S. F. iii, p. 331 ; Butler, S. F. ui, 



p. 457 ; V, p. 218. 

 Ocyceros ginginianiis, Hume, N. Sf E. p. 113 ; Ball, S. F. ii,p. 388. 

 Ocyceros bicornis, Fairbank, S. F. v, p. 394. 

 Lophoceros birostris, Elliot, Mo7i. Buc. pi. 48. _ 



Ocyceros birostris, Davids, ^y Wend. S. F. vii, p. 78 ; Ball, ibid. p. 20o; 



Hume, Cat. no. 144 ; Butler, S. F. ix, p. 384 ; Beid, S. F. x, p. 22 ; 



Davids, ibid. p. 296 ; Barnes, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. i, p. 01 ; id. 



Birds Bom. p. 100; Gates in Humes N. ^- E. 2nd ed. lu, p. 74; 



Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. M. xvii, p. 394. 

 Chakotra, Dhanmar, Dhand, Dhanel, Lamdar, H. ; Selagilli, H. at 

 Saugor; Puttial dhanes, Beng. ; Rundu-mukala-guiva, Tel.; Mumt- 

 mukala-kaka, Irawache, Tarn. 



Fig. 45.— Head of L. birostris, \. 



Coloration. Upper parts light brownish grey, broad supercilia 

 whitish; ear-coverts and cheeks blackish grey; primary and 

 secondary quills blackish brown, all except the first two primaries 

 tipped with white, the secondaries fringed with grey outside, the 

 middle primaries with part of the outer web white, halfway down 

 at first, but gradually nearer the tip on the inner feathers ; tail 

 above browner than back, each feather with a broad subtermmal 

 black or blackish-brown band glossed with green and a white tip ; 

 below from the chin to the breast grey, then passing into the white 

 of the abdomen. The white tips of the primaries are wanting m 

 immature birds. n u iu 



Bill and casque blackish, the tips and outer edges ot both 

 mandibles (not of the casque) white ; irides red-brown ; feet dark 

 plumbeous. In young birds most of the bill is white. 



Length of male about 24 ; wing 8-7; tail 11-5 ; tarsus 1-9 ; bill 

 from gape 4. Females are smaller, wing 7-9. 



Distribution. From the base of the Himalayas throughout the 

 better wooded parts of the Peninsula of India, except on the 

 Malabar coast ; wanting in Sind, Western Rajputana (except at 

 Mount Abu), and the Punjab ; rare in the Gaugetic delta m Lower 



