THE HORNBILLS 



1829 



and tips to the greater wing coverts and quills; the tail being white 

 Hornbill w ^^ a ^ roa( ^ band ^ black just before the tips of the feathers; while 



the bill and the casque are yellow, inclining to orange red on the top 

 of the latter, with some black marks at the base of the bill and along the margins of 

 the casque; and the naked skin round the eye is fleshy pink, and the iris blood 

 red. This hornbill, remarkable for its clumsy-looking bill, inhabits the hills of 



TWO-HORNED HORNBIU,. 



Southern India, the Himalayas, and their continuation in the Burmese countries to 

 Siam, ranging southward through Tenasserim and the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra. 

 It is the only representative of its genus; and, as in the other species of giant horn- 

 bills, there is a difference in the sexes, displaying itself not in plumage, but in the 

 color of the bill. Thus in the female there is no black on the casque; while the bare 

 skin of the face is reddish, and the eye is white, instead of red. Mr. Hume has 

 published notes on the nesting of the present species, and it is interesting to note 



