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SENEGAL HORNBILL. 



Buceros nasutus. B. albo nigroquc varius, rostro simplid rubro, 



pedibus rubris. 



Black and White Hornbill, with simple red bill, and red legs. 

 Buceros nasutus. B.f route Icevi, rectridbus apicc albis. Lin. Syst. 



Nat. 



Le Tock. Buf. ois. PL Enl. 260. 890. 

 Black-billed Hornbill. ) 

 Red-billed Hornbill. f L 



SIZE not much superior to that of a Magpie: 

 length rather more than twenty inches: the bill is 

 large for the size of the bird, and of considerable 

 length, measuring near three inches and a half 

 from base to point : it is slightly curved, but is en- 

 tirely destitute of any crest or casque on the upper 

 mandible. The Count de Buffon observes that this 

 species varies, according to age, both in colour of 

 plumage and bill: in its young state the plumage 

 is cinereous, and the bill black; but in its advanced 

 or full-grown state the plumage becomes black 

 above, and white beneath, as well as round the 

 front and on the neck: it is also said that the bill 

 and legs are black in the young, and red in the 

 full-grown bird. 



This species is common in Senegal, where it is 

 known by the name of Tock. When young it is 

 very simple and unsuspicious, and will suffer itself 

 to be approached and taken, but becomes shy as 

 it advances in age. It freqaents woods, the old 



