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TOCKUS MONTEIRI. 129 
eye-lashes very stiff and projecting; bill red; tarsi and feet black ; 
fris yellow. Total length, including bill, 22’; bill, 8’’; tail, 11’’; 
wing, 10” 6’. 
Fig. Levaill. Ois. d’Afr. pls. 234, 2385. 
120. ‘Tockus MONTEIRI. Monteiro’s Hornbill. 
This beautiful species was first discovered by the well-known 
naturalist, Mr. Joachim J. Monteiro, in Benguela, where he found it 
pretty abundant. Mr. Sala also shot a specimen at Katenbella on 
31st December, 1869, but it does not appear to have been met with 
-by Senor Anchieta. Mr. Andersson’s account of the species is as 
follows :—“ This Hornbill is not very abundant in Damara Land; it 
is usually seen in pairs, but occasionally half a dozen individuals 
may be found in close proximity to one another. It is a shy and 
wary bird, and difficult to approach, except on hot days, when it 
appears to suffer a good deal from the heat. About 8 or9 o’clock in 
the morning it may often be observed quietly resting on the top of 
a tree ; and it will also perch in such situations at other times when 
alarmed, but takes its departure again on the least sign of danger. 
It seldom flies far at a time, but if closely pursued extends its flight 
each time it is dislodged, and thus soon distances its enemy. The 
flight of this and other Hornbills is not unlike that of a Woodpecker, 
dipping and rising alternately. The present species feeds on flowers, 
young shoots, berries, birds’ eggs, and insects; and, in fact, little 
comes amiss to it. J have found much gravel in its stomach, and 
have often flushed it from the ground, to which it resorts for the 
purpose of picking up sand as well as food.” 
Adult.—General colour above ashy brown; the lower back and 
rump darker and more blackish ; the wing-coverts spotted with white; 
these spots being relieved by a circular margin of black, the greater 
coverts broadly tipped with white; primary-coyerts and primaries 
black, the latter with two rows of spots, one at the tip of the outer 
web and the other at about one third of the distance from the base 
of the feather on the same web; innermost secondaries ashy-brown 
like the back, the others pure white, with a certain amount of black 
on the outer web of those nearest the primaries; four centre tail- 
_ feathers black, the rest of the feathers white, with a little black near 
the base of the outer web of the external rectrices; head and neck 
grey all round including the throat and the fore-neck, slightly spotted 
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