RED-BILLED HORNBILL. 1 39 



Total length 17<| inches, yet the body of the 

 bird is not larger than that of a magpie ; the bill, 

 which is entirely red, is much curved from the 

 base; the culmen is sharply carinated, and the 

 margins of both mandibles destitute of serratures. 

 The upper plumage is variegated with brownish- 

 black and white, something in the following man- 

 ner : The sides of the head and neck are white, 

 a broad black stripe being upon the top of the 

 crown, which disappears a little below the nape; 

 the back and scapulars are blackish brown, darkest 

 on the rump, and without any other white mark 

 than a central stripe, which extends half way down 

 the back ; the wing-covers are white, striped with 

 black; the primaries black, with a band of white 

 spots on the outer edge of five of the longest : some 

 of the secondaries are entirely black ; three of these 

 have a white line at their edge, and the three next 

 are wholly white; the tertials are blackish brown, 

 and unspotted ; the tail is long and rounded ; the 

 four middle feathers entirely black ; the rest broadly 

 tipt with white, but the outermost is white with 

 only a small black spot on the outer web ; the ears 

 are grey, and the entire under plumage pure white ; 

 the feet, according to Le Yaillant, are orange brown. 

 Our specimen may possibly be a young bird, as 

 Le Yaillant says that such are without dentations 

 to the bill ; lateral toes unequal, hinder very short. 



Total length, 17^ inches ; bill, in a straight line 

 from the gape, 2 T 8 ^ ; wings, 6f ; tail beyond, 5f ; 

 base, 8; tarsus, 1^. 



