Miscellaneous. 437 



glance at a series of specimens is all that is needed to convince 

 the most sceptical that P. Lilfordi is an excellent species. 



Our second bird is from the British islands ; and it is pro- 

 posed to call it 



Parus hritanmcusj n. sp. 



P. similis P. ntro, sed paullo minor et dorso semper olivaceo-fulvo 

 distinguendus. 



The Coal Titmouse of England will be found, on com- 

 parison with Continental examples, to be perfectly distinct, 

 inasmuch as it has the back olive-buff, quite different from 

 the species from the mainland, which has a slatj-blue back. 

 Any one who examines the Coal Titmouse figured in English 

 works, and compares it with the figure given in any Conti- 

 nental book, Avill see that, as each naturalist illustrates the 

 bird found in his own country, the plates do not at all agree. 

 We have now before us a large series of the two species, shot 

 at all seasons of the year in England, and from nearly every 

 part of the Continent. Both species will be figured in our 

 work on the Birds of Europe. 



MISCELLAI^EOUS. 



On a new Species of Buceros. By G. R. Gkay. 



[Plate XVir.] 



Having had my attention drawn by Mr. E. Bartlett to a head and 

 bill of a species "of Buceros which, on examination, presented in its 

 formation very remarkable differences from any of the known spe- 

 cies of that group of birds, I am induced to offer the following 

 description of its singular and distinctive characters, under the 

 name of 



Buceros (Bi/anistes?) casuariniis. PI. XVII. 



Bill broad at base, laterally comjjressed to the tip ; casque ele- 

 vated posteriorly and extending somewhat backwards over the eyes, 

 rather compressed along the culmen, which is flat and grooved 

 along the middle for two thirds of its length, the sides of the 

 casque shelving to the nasal channel, and furnished with six 

 deep oblique grooves ; the sides below the former are comparatively 

 smooth, and with three apparent scales near the eyes ; the nos- 

 trils are large and deeply imbedded in a broad channel which runs 

 along the sides of the maxilla for about two thirds of its length, in 

 which they are situated at its base ; the mandibula has the gonys 

 long and curved to the tip ; the sides arc furnished with four very 

 obliquely placed grooves, advancing towards each other beneath 



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