258 CROWNED HORNBILL. 



distinctions which would determine the question 

 Yet as in all other respects the two birds agree, we 

 have thought it more advisable, for the present, to 

 keep them under the same specific name. 



In regard to the habits of the Senegal bird we 

 know nothing, and the only specimen we have yet 

 seen belongs to Mr. Warwick. That of the Cape 

 of Good Hope, however, seems to be exceedingly 

 common in some districts on the eastern coast, 

 where M. Le Vaillant mentions having seen flocks 

 of more than five hundred assembling along with 

 crows and vultures, preying on the remains of 

 slaughtered elephants; at other times they are to 

 be found in woods, perched on high withered trees. 

 The female diflPers from the male in having no white 

 spots round the nape ; she deposits her eggs, which 

 are white, and generally four in number, in the 

 hollows of decayed trees. 



The general colour of the upper plumage is a 

 peculiar glossy brownish- black, having a very slight 

 greenish tinge on the quill and tail-feathers; the 

 tertial and secondary quills have a very narrow 

 edging of light brown, but the quills are entirely 

 deep black ; the tail is the same, but all the feathers 

 are more or less tipt with black. The head, neck, 

 breast, and flanks, are blackish-brown, rather lighter 

 than the wings, and of a uniform tint, excepting a 

 number of whitish stripes behind the ears and 

 round the nape, forming an irregular and ill defined 

 band ; the edge of the carpus, middle of the body, 

 vent, and thighs, are fulvous-white ; the bill is red, 



