94 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



but Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured a young bird at Tonghoo. Mr. 

 Blyth gives it from Arrakan, and Mr. Theobald noticed it at Sandoway. 



To the north it has been met with in Chittagong, Cachar, the hill-tracts 

 of Eastern Bengal and in Assam. 



On the south it ranges down the Malay peninsula, and it occurs in 

 Sumatra, Java and Borneo; and Dr. Tiraud states that it is found in 

 Cochin China. 



The habits of this Hornbili do not present any peculiarities. Mr. 

 Theobald in Arrakan and Capt. Bingham in Tenasserim found the eggs in 

 March. 



Other species of this germs are R. plicatus, from New Guinea and the 

 further islands, and R. narcondami, from the Nicobar Islands. 



Genus ANORRHINUS, Eeich. 



481. ANORRHINUS COMATUS. 



THE LONG-CRESTED HORNBILL. 



Buceros comatus, Raffi. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 339. Anorrhinus comatus, 

 Ettiotj Mon. Bucer. pi. xxxix. Berenicornis comatus, Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi. 

 p. 106 j Hume, S. F. viii. p. 86. 



Description. Male. The head, a long and ample crest covering the 

 whole crown and nape, the neck, breast, upper abdomen, tail and the tips 

 of all the primaries and secondaries except the first two primaries white ; 

 remainder of the plumage black, with a green gloss on the wings and 

 scapulars. 



The female has the forehead, crown, nape, crest, tail and the tips of the 

 primaries and secondaries white ; the feathers of the head with black 

 shafts ; remainder of the plumage black, with a green gloss on the wings 

 and scapulars. 



The legs, feet and claws are black, apparently at all ages ; the irides in 

 the adults are wax -yellow, but oil-yellow in the younger birds. In the 

 old adults the facial skin and the base of the lower mandible are a deep 

 but rather dull blue, in somewhat younger birds it is a paler blue, in the 

 next stage pink tinged with blue, and. in the youngest bird pink. In the 

 oldest adult the bill is perfectly black, except the ridge of the casque and 

 a slight mottling of a pale dull green at the bases of both mandibles. In 

 the youngest birds almost the whole of both mandibles is of this dull 

 horny green-colour, only on the upper mandible there is a large patch of 



