144 BUCEROTID^;. 



is comparatively silent but weak and undulating, and consists of 

 alternate flapping and sailing. The breeding-habits are the same 

 as those of other Hornbills. 



Key to the Species. 



Outer tail-feathers entirely white A. coronatus, p. 144. 



Outer tail-feathers only white at the ends A. albirostris, p. 145. 



1052. Anthracoceros coronatus. The Malabar Pied HornUll. 



Buceros coronatus, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 53 (1783). 



Buceros pica, Scop. Del Flor. et Faun. Insub. ii, p. 87 (1786) ; Blyth, 



J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 993 ; xviii, p. 802 ; xxi, p. 352 ; id. Cat. p. 43 ; 



Tickell, Ibis, 1864, p. 179. 

 Buceros malabaricus, varr. /3 et y, Lath. Ind. Orn. i, p. 143 (1790) ; 



Tickell, J. A. 8. B. ii, p. 579 ; Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. S. xi, p. 38 ; 



Blyth, J.A.S.B. xii, p. 993; Layard, A. M. N. H. (2) xiii, 



p. 260. 

 Buceros violaceus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii, p. 19 (1811); Blyth, J. A. 



S. B. xii, p. 994. 

 Hydrocissa coronata, Horsf. fy M. Cat. ii, p. 588 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, 



p. 245 ; Holdsioorth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 425 ; Ball, 8. F. ii, p. 387 ; 



iii, p. 290 ; vii, p. 204 ; Hume, Cat. no. 141 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, 



p. 51 ; Butler, S. F. ix, p. 383 ; Davison, S. F. x, p. 352 ; Barnes, 



Birds Bom. p. 105. 

 Anthracoceros coronatus, Elliot, Mon. Buc. pi. xi ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. 



p. 272 ; Parker, 8. F. ix, p. 478 ; id. Ibis, 1886, p. 184 ; Oyilvie 



Grant, Cat. B. M. xvii, p. 362. 



DJian Churi, H. ; Suliman Murghi, Pakhani ; Bagma dunes, Ben*?. ; 

 Kuchla-Kha, Uriya ; Wayera, Mahr. ; Kannari, Concan ; Peshta ganda, 

 Gond. ; Porowa Kcendetta, Atta Kcendetta, Cing. ; Errana-chundoo- 

 kuravi, Tamil (Ceylon). 



Coloration. Whole head and neck and upper parts throughout, 

 including the wings above and the middle pair of tail-feathers, 

 black glossed with dark green ; lower breast, abdomen, lower tail- 

 coverts, and all the tail-feathers except the middle pair white, as 

 are broad tips of all quills except the first two primaries and the 

 tertiaries, the bases of the primaries and part of the edge of the 

 wing ; under wing-coverts and axillaries black. 



The casque is large and compressed, not convex at the sides. 

 Bill and casque are waxen yellow, except the base of both man- 

 dibles and a large spot occupying about the anterior three fourths 

 of the upper portion of the casque, which are black. In the male, 

 but not in the female, the back of the casque is black. Irides 

 orange-red in males, brown in females ; naked skin blackish round 

 the eye in males, white in females ; bare skin on the throat flesh- 

 coloured ; legs and feet grey. 



Length about 3 feet ; tail 12-5 inches ; wing 13-5 ; tarsus 2-f> ; 

 bill from gape 7'5. Females rather less. As usual Ceylon birds 

 are smaller than those of Orissa and Northern Malabar. 



In the young the basal half of the outer tail-feathers is black, 



