WHITE-BEAKED HORNBILL. 1 



of our author, is the case with the rest of the de 

 scriptions and figures in that publication. 



WHITE-BEAKED HORNBILL. 



Buceros albirostris. B. subcristatus niger, abdomine apicibusque rc- 



migum et rcctricum albls, rostro albido, galea cumpressa antice 



obtusa macula nii^ra. 

 Slightly-crested Black Hornbill, with the abdomen and tips of th 



wing and tail-feathers white, the bill whitish with compressed 



obtuse-fronted casque marked by a black spot. 

 Pied Hornbill.? Lath.syn. 

 Buceros Malabaricus.? Lath. ind. orn. 

 Le Calao a bee blanc. Levaill. Cal. pi. 14. 



So extremely near is the resemblance between 

 this bird and the Unicorn Hornbill that it requires 

 all the eloquence of Monsr. Levaillant to persuade 

 us that it is any thing more than a variety, or per- 

 haps a sexual difference of the preceding species; 

 differing perhaps in the less advanced stage of 

 growth of the rostral appendix, which instead of 

 projecting into an absolute point or horn in front, 

 finishes obtusely on that part. We must however 

 state what Monsr. Levaillant advances in defence 

 of his ranking it as a separate species. 

 , " This bird, says he, which was sent me froni 

 Chandernagor, where it had been killed, appears 

 to me to be a new species hitherto undescribed by 

 authors. Its length, from the top of the head to 

 the end of the tail, is tv\ 7 enty inches, of which the 

 tail alone measures half: the bill, if taken along 



