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Head and base of bill all round, back, wings, and belly, black ; 

 neck, ends of upper tail-coverts, tail, thigh-coverts, vent, under 

 tail-coverts, and wing-spot, white, the latter formed by the edges 

 of the greater-coverts ; the base of the primaries, and the tips of 

 all the quills, also white ; tail with a broad black band towards 

 the terminal third ; the neck, and sometimes the wing-spot, 

 are often smeared yellow from the secretion of the uropygial 

 gland. 



The Great Hornbill is a permanent resident in the forest-clad 

 portions of the Sahyadri range, where it is not uncommon. 



It has not been recorded from any other portion of our limits. 



GENUS, Hydrocissa, Bonap. 



Bill with a long, sharp, acute casque, extending from the 

 of the bill over two-thirds of its length. 



Hydrocissa coronata, Bodd. 



141. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 245; Butler, Deccan ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 383. 



THE MALABAR PIED HORNBILL. 



Length, 36 ; expanse, 39 ; wing, 11-25 to 13 ; tail, 12 to 14 ; bill 

 from gape, 6 to 7. 



Bill and part of the casque yellowish-white ; base of both man- 

 dibles black, extending obliquely downwards and forwards, also 

 the hind margin of the casque (in the male only) ; a large patch of 

 the same color occupies the anterior three-fourths of the casque 

 in old specimens, but never reaches downwards to the upper 

 mandible, as in the next species ; casque very large and exceeding- 

 ly compressed, laterally protruding far backward over the crown 

 and its ridge terminating in an acute angle anteriorly, being 

 prolonged considerably beyond the junction of the casque with the 

 upper mandible ; irides crimson ; feet dark green. 



The female has no black on the hind edge of the casque, and 

 both bill and casque are slightly smaller. 



The young have at first no black on the incipient casque, 

 which appears and increases in quantity with the growth of the 

 latter. 



Black beneath from the breast; tips of the primaries and 

 secondaries, and the three outer tail-feathers on each side, with 

 more or less of the next pair, pure white. 



Permanent resident and not uncommon in the forests near 

 Belgaum and in the Kanara jungles. It also occurs along the 

 Sahyadri range. 



It has not been recorded from any other portion of the district. 



GENUS, Ocyceros. 



Bill with a compressed sharp-pointed 'casque, size small ; plum- 

 age grey. 



