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and there is at first no black on the casque, which is small. The 

 nestling, according to Parker, has a brownish-white bar on the 

 black feathers, except on the quills and rectrices. 



Distribution. Ceylon, in the dry forests of the low country, 

 woods at the base of the Western Ghats in Malabar as far north 

 as Batnagiri, and the forest-region of South-western Bengal, 

 Orissa, Bastar, and the Eastern Central Provinces ; not recorded 

 elsewhere. 



Habits, fyc. The nidification has not been recorded by an eye- 

 witness, but, as shown by Legge, Parker, and others, is undoubtedly 

 similar to that of other Hornbills. This bird breeds in Ceylon 

 from March to June and lays 2 to 4 eggs, measuring about 2 by 1*5. 



1053. Anthracoceros albirostris. The Indo- Burmese Pied 

 Hornbill. 



Buceros inalabaricus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i, p. 359 (1788). 



Buceros albirostris, Shaw fy Nodd. Nat. Misc. xix, p. 819 (1790- 



1813) ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 995 ; xvi, p. 994; xviii, p. 803 ; 



id. Cat. p. 43 ; Tickell, Ibis, 1864, p. 179. 

 Buceros nigralbus, Hodas. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1831), descr. 



nulla. 



Buceros leucogaster, Blyth, J. A. S. B. x, p. 922 (1841) ; xii, p. 177. 

 Buceros affinis (Hutton), Blyth, J. A. S. B. xviii, p. 802 (1849) ; id. 



Cat. p. 43. 

 Hydrocissa albirostris, Horsf. Sf M. Cat. ii, p. 589; Jerdon, B. 1. i, 



p. 247 ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 5 ; Ball, S. F. iii, p. 290 ; vii, p. 204 ; 



Godw.-Aust, J. A. S. B. xlv, pt. 2, p. 69; Blyth # Wald. Birds 



Burm. p. 68 ; Inglis, S. F. v, p. 20 ; Binaham, S. F. v, p. 84 ; viii, 



p. 462 ; ix, p. 158 ; Wardl.-Ravns. Ibis, 1877, p. 455 ; Hume 8f Dav. 



S. F. vi, p. 100; Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 577; Gates, 



S. F. vii, p. 46 ; Hume, Cat. no. 142 ; id. S. F. xi, p. 51. 

 Hydrocissa affinis, Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 247 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 349 ; 



Hume, S. F. vi, p. 103 ; vii, p. 205 ; id. Cat. no. 143. 

 Hydrocissa coronata, apud Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, 



p. 266 ; xii, pt. 2, p. 143. 

 Anthracoceros malabaricus, Elliot, Mon. Buc. pi. xiii ; Oyilvie Grant, 



Cat. B. M. xvii, p. 365. 

 Anthracoceros albirostris, Oates, B. B. ii, p. 90 ; id. in Hume's N. 8f E. 



2nd ed. iii, p. 72 ; Salvadori, Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. (2) iv, p. 588 ; 



vii, p. 428. 



The Bengal Pied Hornbill, The Dehra-Doon Hornbill, Jerdon ; Hay- 

 tuk tek-ee, Assamese ; Ouk-khyen, Burmese. 



Coloration. Similar to that of A. coronatus, except that the four 

 outer pairs of tail-feathers are black for three-fourths of their 

 length and only white for 3 or 4 inches at the tip. The casque is 

 very different in shape, not compressed, but convex at the sides 

 and swollen. The black marks on the bill and casque are different : 

 in males there is a black band running obliquely downwards and 

 backwards from the anterior point ; the back of the casque, the 

 base of both mandibles, and part of the commissure are black. In 

 females the back of the casque, the anterior half of the casque, 



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