THE GREAT PIED HORNBILL. 87 



was of this description. The want of the collar is probably due to 

 immaturity. 



The Banded Kingfisher is found both in Pegu and Tenasserim. In the 

 former Division I procured it on the eastern spurs of the Pegu hills 

 between Thayetmyo and Tonghoo, and Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay on the 

 K fir in hills to the east of Tonghoo. In Tenasserim it was observed by 

 Mr. Davison from Amherst down to the southernmost point of the Division, 

 and by Capt. Bingham in the Thoungyeen valley. 



It ranges down the Malay peninsula and occurs in Sumatra and Java. 



The specimens I procured on the Pegu hills were shot in a rocky stream 

 in a dense evergreen forest. Mr. Davisoii, who had more opportunities 

 of observing it, states, however, that this species is not usually found near 

 streams, but in dense forests, feeding on lizards, woodlice, &c. 



Family BUCEROTID^E. 



Genus DICHOCEROS, Gloger. 



476. DICHOCEROS BICORNIS. 

 THE GREAT PIED HORNBILL. 



Buceros bicornis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 153. Buceros cavatus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. 

 viii. p. 18 ; Tick. Ibis, 1864, p. 170. Buceros homrai, Hodys. J. A. S. B. i. 

 p. 251. Homraius bicornis, Jerd. B. 2nd. i. p. 242. Dichoceros homrai, 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. Ill; id. S. F. iii. p. 55. Dichoceros bicornis, id. 

 Nests and Eggs, p. 112 ; Bl $ Wald. B. Burm. p. 68 ; Elliot, Man. Bncer. pi. vi. ; 

 Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 454. Dichoceros cavatus, Bourdillon fy 

 Hume, S. F. iv. p. 384; Inylis, S. F. v. p. 20; Hume # Dav. S. F. vi. p. 98; 

 Oates, S. F. vii. p. 45 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 86 ; Bingham, S. F. viii. p. 461, ix. 

 p. 158. 



Description. Male and female. A broad band round the base of the bill 

 extending as far as the ends of the ear-coverts black ; a broader band 

 round the neck white, tinged with fulvous ; the lower rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, under tail-coverts and the lower abdomen and vent white; tail 

 white, with a broad band of black across it; the remainder of the plumage 

 black, more or less glossy; the quills all broadly tipped with white and 

 with a white band at their bases, except on the first two primaries ; the 

 primary-coverts tipped with yellowish white ; the greater coverts broadly 

 tipped with white. 



