FURROWED HORNBILL. 



Buceros Panayensis. B. subcristatus niger, (femind varid,) cauda 



basi alba, mandibulis fuscis transversim rubro sukatis, galea com- 



presso-obtusa. 

 Slightly -crested black Hornbill, (the female variegated,) with tail 



white at the base, brown mandibles transversely furrowed with 



red, and blackish compressed-obtuse casque. 

 Buceros Panayensis. Lin. Gmel. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Le Calao de 1'Isle Panay. Buff. ois. 

 Calao a bee cisele. PI. Enl. 780. 781. 

 Le Calao a bee cisele. Leoaill. Cal. pi. iG. 17- 18. 



THE Furrowed Hornbill, so named from the la- 

 teral furrows on its beak, seems to have been first 

 described by Monsr. Sonnerat. Its size is that of a 

 Raven, but longer in proportion, as in the rest of 

 this genus: its colour is black with a gloss of blue, 

 and the tail is of a tawny white colour at the base 

 or upper half: the feathers on the back of the head 

 are long and loose, so as to form a pendent crest : 

 the bill is large, of a dusky or blackish horn-colour, 

 both mandibles being marked transversely, but in 

 an oblique direction, half way from the base, by se- 

 veral deep furrows of a brick-red colour, the inter- 

 vening prominences being blacker than the rest of 

 the bill. Above the upper mandible rises a simple 

 longitudinal crest or process of the same colour 

 with the rest of the bill, and terminating obtusely 

 in front. The female is rather smaller than the 

 male, and differs in having the head, neck, and 

 breast of a dull white ; the tail of the same colour, 



v. vni. p. i. 3 



