BIFID-CASQUED HORNBILL. 17 



"a particularity, says Levaillant, which, so far as my 

 examination of more than three thousand species 

 of birds allows rne to pronounce, exists in no bird 

 yet known." In fact, as we have stated above, the 

 tail has three white feathers on each side. The 

 bifid-casqued Hornbill is a native of India and the 

 Indian isles. 



VAR. 



Size of a Hen: bill somewhat bent, serrated, dia- 

 phanous, and of the colour of cinnabar, measuring 

 seven inches in length : upper mandible furnished 

 at the top with a helmet a span long, nearly three 

 inches broad, and flat on the top: tongue scarcely 

 an inch long: head small, and as far as the eyes, 

 black: pupils blue: irides white: eyelids beset with 

 black bristles: head and neck rufous; belly black: 

 back and rump brownish ash: legs and thighs yel- 

 lowish: greater quill-feathers fulvous: tail white. 

 Native of the Philippine isles: has a voice like that 

 of a hog or calf: considered by the Gentoos as a 

 sacred bird: lives in woods, and feeds on the In- 

 dian fig, pistachios, &c. &c. described by Camelli 

 in the Philosophical Transactions, vol. 23. p. 1394. 



V. vm. p. i. 



