BUCEROTID.. 105 
Head and base of bill all round, back, wings, and belly, black ; 
neck, ends of upper tail-coverts, tail, thigh-coverts, vent, under 
tail-coverts, and wing-spot, white, the latter formed by the edges 
of the greater-coverts; the base of the primaries, and the tips of 
all the quills, also white ; tail with a broad black band towards 
the terminal third; the neck, and sometimes the wing-spot, 
are often smeared yellow from the secretion of the uropygial 
land. 
if The Great Hornbill is a permanent resident in the forest-clad 
portions of the Sahyadri range, where it is not uncommon. 
It has not been recorded from any other portion of our limits. 
Genus, Hydrocissa, Bonap. 
Bill with a long, sharp, acute casque, extending from the base 
of the bill over two-thirds of its length. 
Hydrocissa coronata, Bodd. 
141.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 245; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 383. 
THE MALABAR PIED HORNBILL. 
Length, 36 ; expanse, 39 ; wing, 11°25 to 13; tail, 12 to 14; bill 
from gape, 6 to 7. 
Bill and part of the casque yellowish-white ; base of both man- 
dibles black, extending obliquely downwards and forwards, also 
the hind margin of the casque (in the male only) ; a large patch of 
the same color occupies the anterior three-fourths of the casque 
in old specimens, but never reaches downwards to the upper 
mandible, as in the next species ; casque very large and exceeding- 
ly compressed, laterally protruding far backward over the crown 
and its ridge terminating in an acute angle anteriorly, being 
prolonged considerably beyond the junction of the casque with the 
upper mandible ; irides crimson ; feet dark green. 
The female has no black on the hind edge of the casque, and 
both bill and casque are slightly smaller. - 
The young have at first no black on the incipient casque; 
which appears and increases in quantity with the growth of the 
latter. 
Black beneath from the breast; tips of the primaries and 
secondaries, and the three outer tail-feathers on each side, with 
more or less of the next pair, pure white. 
Permanent resident and not uncommon in the forests near 
Belgaum and in the Kanara jungles. It also occurs along the 
Sahyadri range. 
It has not been recorded from any other portion of the district. 
Genus, Ocyceros. 
Bill with a compressed sharp-pointed casque, size small; plum- 
age grey. 
