THE BUSTARD. THE RHINOCEROS HORNB1LL. 



Leaden-tinted Bustard. 



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Rlack-headed Bustard. 



The Black-headed Bustard is extensively spread throughout India. It is gregarious, and the male Is 

 furnished with a pouch similar to that of the Great Bustard. Its flesh is excellent, 



The Leaden-tinted Bustard is a native of South Africa. Its habits and manners are those of the family 

 generally. The length is twenty inches, and its height, when erect, is seventeen inches. 



The Rhinoceros Hornbill is a native of India and the Indian 

 Islands. The enormous bill, with its incomprehensible append 

 age, although of course heavy, is really much lighter than it 

 looks, being composed of a kind of light honeycombed struc- 

 ture. The upper protuberance is hollow, and the only con 

 jecture formed of its use, is that it serves as a sounding board 

 to increase the reverberations of the air, while the bird is 

 uttering its peculiar roaring cry. 



In spite of the apparently unwieldly bill the bird is very 

 active, and hops about the branches of trees with much ease. 

 The appendage to the upper mandible is small when the bird is 

 young, and only attains its enormous size when the Horubill 

 has reached its full growth. The bill of the Hoopoes presents 

 a somewhat analagous peculiarity, as when the bird is young 

 the bill is short and pointed, and increases with the size of the 

 bird. From this circumstance, together with some other re- 

 semblaHces, some imagine that there is an affinity between the 

 Hornbilla and Hoopoes. The Hornbills seem to be omniv- 

 orous, fruits, eggs, birds, reptiles, &c, forming their food 



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The Rhinoceros nornbiH. 



