36 GINGI HORNBILL. 



birds assembled in company with crows and vul- 

 tures, and preying on the remains of slaughtered 

 elephants. The female deposits her eggs, which 

 are white, and four in number, in the hollows of 

 trees. 



GINOI HORNBILL. 



Buceros Ginginianus. JB. cristatm griscus, remigibus caudaquc 

 fuscis, fascia caudali nigra, rostra albido, galea antrorswn acu- 

 minata nigra. 



Crested Grey Hornbill, with brown quill-feathers and tail, the 

 latter marked by a black bar; the bill whitish with black casque 

 acuminated in front. 



Buceros Ginginianus. B. rostro compresso incurcato^ronte ossea 

 antrorsum subulata, corpore griseo subtm albo, remigibus fascia- 

 que rectricitm intermediarum apice nigris. Lath. ind. orn. 



Le Calao de Gingi. Sonncr. voy. Ind. 2. pi. 121. 



Le Calao de Gingi. Levaill. Cal. pi. 15. 



FIRST described by Sonnerat: length two feet 

 from the tip of the bill to that of the tail, of which 

 the length is about ten inches: bill three inches 

 long, measured in a strait line : it is curved, and of 

 a black colour, the upper ridge of the upper man- 

 dible and the lower of the under white: the process 

 or casque follows the curvature of the upper man- 

 dible; is continued to nearly half the length of that 

 part, and terminates in a projecting horn or pro- 

 cess: the colour of the whole bird above is pale 

 cinereous, the quills and tail darker than the rest; 

 the smaller quill-feathers tipped with white, and the 



