Hornbills of the Ethiopian Region. Q7 



typical greyer-cheeked race as his B. luifwostris, I have pro- 

 posed a new name for the Damara bird. 



24, LOPHOCEROS FLAVIROSTRIS. 



Buceros flavirostris, Eiipp. N. W. 1835, p. 6, pi. 2; Speke, 

 Ibis, I860, p. 244'; Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 278'; F. & H. 

 Vog. Ostafr. p. 490; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. pp. 725, c\w\ 



Tockus flavirostris, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. 1845, p. 79*; 

 Blanf. Geol. & Zool. Abyss, p. 327'; Elliot, Monogr. Bucerot. 

 part., N.E. Afr., nee pi. 51 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 

 1884, pp. 104, 262 \ 



Rhynchaceros flavirostris, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 235''. 



Hab. Confined to E. Africa, between about 15° N. lat. and 

 5 S. lat. 



From the hot valleys of Schoho-land this bird extends to the 

 Bay of Adulis and to Samhar; also collected near Moiet 

 Schahadi below Mekulu, but not on the coast-region itself 

 {Heuglin^) ; Kordofan, Nubia, Abyssinia [Riippell^) ; Undel 

 Well and Rayrayguddy {Jesse ') ; Abyssinia, from 2500 to 

 3000 feet in January and February, and from 7000 to 8000 

 feet in May and June; about Senafe {Blanford') ; Shoa 

 [Antinori'') -, Efat in Shoa {Harris, Brit. Mus.) ; Somali 

 {Speke') ; Ndi in Taita {Hildebranclt\ Brit. Mus.). 



25. LoPHOCEROS LEUCOMELAS. 



Buceros leucomelas, Licht. Verz. Saugeth. u. Vog. 1842, 

 p. 17\ 



Buceros flavirostris, Ayres (nee Riipp.), Ibis, 1871, p. 260^; 

 1879, p. 295 ^ 



Tockus flavirostris, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 9 ' (part., S. Afr.); 

 Gurney, ed. Anderss. B. Damara Ld. p. 210'; Buckley, Ibis, 

 1874, p. 365 «; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 82'; Sharpe in Oates's 

 Matabele Land, p. 304'; id. ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 130, 

 808'; Elliot, Monogr. Bucerot. part., nee pi. 51; Shelley, 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 245 ". 



Hab. Confined to S. Africa. 



Kanye in Matabele {Exton^) ; Mashoona-land {Ayres^°). 

 Common from the north of Transvaal through Bamangwato 

 {T. E. Buckley'); Motloutsi and Crocodile River {Oates') ; 



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