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we have ever heard. It begins with a series of notes precisely like the 

 'song' of a common hen magnified about fifty-fold, and ends with an 

 indescribable combination of cackles and shrieks. 



"Two males from Tawi Tawi measure, 717 in length; wing, 293; tail, 

 243 ; tarsus, 52 ; middle toe with claw, 59. Six females from same 

 locality measure: Length, 672; wing, 268; tail, 224; tarsus, 51; middle 

 toe with claw, 55. A male and two females from Sulu are slightly 

 smaller. Eyes vary from nearly white to nearly black, the females usually 

 having the darker eyes ; bare skin of head black ; bill black. Food fruit." 

 (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



Genus GYMNOLJ3MUS Grant, 1892. 



Casque large, compressed, and fairly smooth, its top rounded, outline 

 gently curved, overhanging behind and abruptly truncated in front; no 

 chiseling on sides of bill; chin, upper throat, and large space around 

 eye entirely nude. 



293. GYMNOL/EMUS LEMPRIERI (Sharpe). 

 PALAWAN HOENBILL. 



Anthracoceros lemprieri SHARPE, Nature (1885), 32, 46 (desc. nulla) ; 



Proc. Zool. Soc. (1885), 446, pi. 26; EVERETT, Ibis (1895), 30. 

 Anthracoceros marchii OUSTALET, Le Naturaliste (1885), 108. 

 Gymnolcemus marchii GRANT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 370. 

 Gymnolcemus lemprieri SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 65; MCGREGOR and 



WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 56. 



Balabac (Everett); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester); Palawan (Marche, 

 Lempriere, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Celestino ) . 



Adult male. Eectrices pure white, their shafts pale yellow; remainder 

 of plumage black, glossed with dark green. A male from Palawan meas- 

 ures: Length, about 710; wing, 290; tail, 240; bill from nostril, 111; 

 greatest length of crest, 106 ; tarsus, 52. 



"Adult female. Resembles the male, but the casque is less developed 

 and the size smaller. Length, 610; wing, 264; tail, 216; tarsus, 53." 

 (Grant.) 



"We saw this bird on several occasions in Palawan, but always in 

 very high trees, and it was so extremely wild that we did not succeed in 

 securing any specimens from that island. In the Calamianes Islands 

 we found it both common and tame. On several occasions we saw it 

 feeding in low fruit trees within a few feet of the ground. 



"Iris brown; legs and feet leaden; nails black; bill white except base 

 of lower mandible; bare skin of head white. A female measures, 610 in 

 length; wing, 263; tail, 204; tarsus, 46; middle toe with claw, 58." 

 (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



