UNICORN HORNBILL. 



Buceros Mouoceros. B. subcri*iatus niger, obdominc lateribvsquo 



rectricwn albis, rostrofavescenfe, galea compressa anticc acuminafa 



supra nigra. 

 Slightly-crested Black Hornbill, with abdomen and sides of the 



tail-feathers white $ the bill yellowish, with compressed casque 



black above and pointed in front. 

 Buceros Malabaricus. ? Lath. ind. orn. 

 Pied Hornbill.? Lath. syn. 

 Le Calao Unicorne. Levaill. CaL pi. g. 10. 11. 12. 



THIS species has been well described by the 

 Count de Buffon under the name of Calao de Ma- 

 labar. " It was brought, says he, from Pondi- 

 cherry, and lived the whole of the summer in the 

 court yard of the Marchioness de Pons, who was 

 so obliging as to present it to me. It was as large 

 as a common Raven, or twice as large as a crow, 

 measuring two feet and a half in length from the 

 tip of the bill to that of the tail, which it had lost 

 in its passage to France, and which, though be- 

 ginning to grow again, had by no means attained 

 its full length ; so that we may presume the whole 

 length of the bird may be about three feet: the 

 bill was eight inches long, and two broad, and was 

 bent fifteen lines from the strait position: the 

 second bill, if it may be so called, sat, like a horn, 

 close on the first, following its curvature, and ex- 

 tending from the base to within two inches of the 

 point: its height was two inches and two lines, so 

 that, measuring in the middle, the bill, together 



