156 BUCEKOTID-E. 



Bengal, and not found farther east. This species does not occur 

 in Ceylon. 



Habits, <$fc. This little Hornbill is generally seen in small 

 parties about open jungle, groves of trees, and gardens, but not in 

 thick forest. It lives chiefly on fruit, but occasionally eats insects 

 also. It has a harsh cry, and an undulating flight, with alternate 

 flappings and sailings. An excellent account of the nidification 

 at Mainpuri is given by Mr. Home, who watched the female bird 

 shut up, with her own droppings, the opening of the nest-hole in 

 a sissoo tree, except the slit through which she received food from, 

 the male. The female never leaves the nest from before laying 

 her first egg till the young are about a week old. The eggs, 3 to 5 

 in number, are laid from April to June ; they are dull white in 

 colour and measure about 1'7 by 1*22. 



1063. Lophoceros griseus. The Malabar Grey Hornbill. 



Buceros griseus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i, p. 147 (1790). 



Tockus gingalensis, apud Jerdon, Mad. Jour. L. 8. xi, p. 38 ; id. B. I. 



i, p. 250; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 5; nee Buceros gingalensis, Shaw. 

 Buceros gingalensis, Baker, J. A. S. B. xxviii, p. 292 ; nee Shaiv. 

 Tockus griseus, Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 350 ; Fairbank, S. F. iv, p. 255 ; 



v, p. 395 ; Hume $ Bourd. S. F. iv, p. 387 ; Hume, Cat. no. 145 ; 



Elliot, Mon. Buc. pi. 54 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 51 ; Butler, ibid. 



p. 384 ; Davison, S. F. x, p. 352 ; Macgregor, ibid. p. 436 ; Barnes, 



Birds Bom. p. 106 ; Davidson, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. \\, p. 334. 

 Ocyceros griseus, Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. M. xvii, p. 396. 



The Jungle Grey Hornbill, Jerdon ; Kaldal-haki, Can. 



Fig. 46. Head of L. griseus, . 



Coloration. Upper parts dark slaty grey, brownish on the back ; 

 nasal plumes and broad supercilia, extending far backwards, 

 brownish white ; ear-coverts blackish ; feathers of head, crest, 

 throat, and breast with whitish shaft-stripes ; quills black, pri- 

 maries, from 3rd to 7th, 8th, or sometimes 9th, with broad white 

 tips ; tail-feathers black glossed with green, the three outer pairs 

 white for some distance from the tips ; lower parts ashy grey, 

 paler on the chin and on the abdomen ; vent and lower tail-coverts 

 rufous. 



Both mandibles are thickened at the side by a kind of incrusta- 

 tion towards the base ; nostrils elongate, in a groove, the posterior 

 portion of which is covered by membrane and overhung by a tuft 

 of feathers. 



Bill horny yellow, with a brownish-red tinge except towards the 

 tip, dusky or black along the commissure ; irides red-brown ; 

 orbital skin black ; legs and feet greenish. In the female the bill 



