110 BUCEROTID^ 



LOPHOCEROS 



a 1 . Bill red. 



a?. Sides of the head and neck greyish L. erythrorhynchus, p. 116. 



b 3 . Sides of the head and neck pure 



white L. damarensis, p. 117. 



6 ! . Bill yellow L. leucomelas, p. 118. 



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428. Lophoceros melanoleucus. Crowned Hornbill. 



Buceros melanoleucus, LicJit. Cat. Her. Nat. Bar. p. 8 (1793). 



Le Calao couronne, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. v, p. 117, pis. 234, 235 (1806). 



Buceros coronatus, Shaw (nee Bodd.), Gen. Zool. viii, p. 35 (1811) ; Layard's 



B. S. Afr. p. 225 (1867) ; id. Ibis, 1869, p. 372 [George]. 

 Tockus melanoleucus, Garneij, Ibis, 1862, p. 157 [Natal] ; id. Andersson's 



B. Damaraland, p. 208 (1872) ; Sharpe, ed LayanVs B. 8. Afr. p. 



127 (1875) ; Elliot, Mon. Bucerot. pi. 49 (1880) ; Schonland, Trans. 



S. A. Phil. Soc. ix, p. 1 (1897). 

 Lophoceros melanoleucus, Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 61 ; Grant, Cat. B. M. 



xvii, p. 399 (1892) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 114 (1896) ; Woodward Bros. 



Natal B. p. 98 (1899) ; Alexander, Ibis, 1900, p. 100 [Zambesi] . 

 " Toucan " of the Colonists. " Umkolwana " of Zulus (Woodward). 



Description. Adult. Head, which is slightly crested, brownish- 

 black, some of the feathers above the eye, on the cheeks and nape 

 with white centres giving a mottled appearance ; ear-coverts silvery ; 



FIG. 37. Lophoceros melanoleucus. x '^. 



back, wings and tail dark brown, central and outer pair of tail- 

 feathers slightly, others broadly tipped with white ; wing-quills 

 slightly edged with buffy-white ; below, throat, chest and sides of 

 the body blackish-grey, rest of the under parts pure white. 



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