496 BUCEROTID^E. 



Head, crest, neck, and entire upper parts dark brown, glossed with green ; 

 throat, breast and abdomen dull chocolate brown, also glossed greenish ; vent 

 and under tail coverts pale drab ; tail pale drab basally and black for the 

 terminal two-fifths. Legs black ; irides lake red ; gular and orbital skin 

 pale blue; base of throat and eyelids mottled with black and white. 

 (Hume, ex Oates.) 



Length. $$ inches ; tail 13 ; wing 14 ; tarsus 2 ; bill from gape 5-2 ; crest 

 about 5 inches long. 



Eab. Tenasserim in the south, from Bankasoon up to Nwalabo mountain. 

 Extends down the Malay Peninsula, and occurs in Sumatra and Borneo. 



1139. Anorrhinus Tickelli, Biyth, J. A. S. B. xxiv. pp. 266, 



285 ; id., xxviii. p. 412 ; id., B. Burm. p. 69 ; Elliot, Mon. Bucer pi. xliii. ; 

 Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 86; Oates, B, Br. Burm. ii. p. 96. Toccus tickelli, 

 Tick., Ibis, 1864, p. 173, pi. iii. Ocyceros tickelli, Hume and Dav., Str. F. 

 vi. p. 103 ; Hume, Str. F. vii. p. 499 ; Bingham, Str. F. viii. p. 462 ; id., 

 Str. F. ix. p. 158. TICKELL'S HORNBILL. 



Feathers behind the nostrils pale ferruginous ; forehead, crown and nape 

 dark brown, the feathers edged with reddish brown, those on the nape with a 

 grey shaft line ; plumage of the upper surface of the body dark brown ; the 

 wing coverts and scapulars edged slightly paler; tail dark brown, the feathers 

 edged externally with greyish white, and all broadly tipped white ; quills black; 

 the primaries, except the first and last two, with a patch of buff on the outer 

 webs and tipped white ; the secondaries edged externally with pale buff ; ter- 

 tiaries brown, edged paler externally ; primary coverts black, mottled with 

 white near the tips ; cheeks, ear coverts, sides of the neck and the whole 

 lower surface of the body bright ferruginous; bill yellow; a patch of 

 red on either side of the base of the lower mandible ; orbital skin pale blue j 

 irides brown ; legs dark plumbeous. The female does not differ in any 

 respect from the male. The bill is yellowish, irregularly blotched with 

 greenish ; iris light brown. An immature male has the sides of the head, 

 chin, throat and breast with white shaft stripes ; but differs in no other respect 

 from the adult. 



Length. 29 inches; tail 12-5 ; wing 13 ; tarsus 1-9; bill from gape 4-6 to 

 5'2. The Female Length 27 inches; tail 11-5; wing 12; tarsus r8; bill 

 from gape 4. 



. Tenasserim, from the head of the Thoungyeen river to its junction 

 with the Salween and right across the valley from ridge to ridge. (Oates) 

 Breeds in February and March. Eggs vary in number from 2 to 5, and are 

 like those of its congeners, pure white. 



