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original description, copied that of Sonnerat, and, although he quoted D’Aubenton’s 
plates, omitted to notice the discrepancy. 
Le Vaillant’s figure (/.c. pl. 17) and that by D’Aubenton (/.¢. pl. 781) were drawn 
from the same example, which was preserved in the Abbé Aubrey’s cabinet (fide 
Le Vaill. 7.¢.). At the time Le Vaillant wrote (1810), five examples of this species 
were known to him. Since that date there is no recorded evidence of any other haying 
been brought to Europe. 
At some time previous to the year 1780 Poivre sent to the Royal cabinet in Paris an 
example of a small Philippine Hornbill, which D’Aubenton figured (op. cit. pl. 891) 
and which Buffon described (tom. cit. p. 144) under the title of Calao de Manille. 
This example no longer existed at the Jardin des Plantes in 1810 (fide Le Vaill.); but 
Le Vaillant figured (tom. cit. pl. 18) a second example, given to the Abbé Aubrey by 
Poivre. The origin of Poivre’s Hornbill can only be inferred from the title bestowed 
by Buffon. That it belonged to a new and distinct species, was perfectly recognized by 
Buffon; yet Le Vaillant identified it (1810) as the young of Sonnerat’s Hornbill, and 
this identification has been quietly acquiesced in by every author, save Meyen, ever 
since, even by the astute Wagler. The considerable series of individuals obtained by 
Dr. Meyer in Luzon and in the island of Guimaras, close to that of Panay, completely 
establishes the fact that the Hornbills brought to France by Poivre and by Sonnerat 
belonged to two separate species. 
The adult male has the head, including a large crest, lower throat, sides of the neck, 
breast, and abdomen, bright tawny. The upper part of the throat between the rami 
of the mandibles, a stripe from the gape, bounding the naked space below the eye, the 
cheeks, where not denuded, and the ear-coverts jet-black. The latter are much 
elongated, and a few of the uppermost mingle with the lateral crest-plumes. The 
abdomen is washed with ferruginous, which changes into much deeper ferruginous on 
the thighs, under tail-coverts, vent, rump, and upper tail-coverts. The back and wings 
are uniform black, strongly glossed with green. The rectrices for the first seven inches 
are of a paler ferruginous, some on the outer web narrowly fringed with black. The 
tail-feathers for the remaining three inches are black, glossed with green, like the back. 
The shafts are black throughout their lengths. The black of the apical part of the tail 
runs up the outer webs of the outer pair of rectrices for a short distance. ‘The quills 
are black, glossed with green, on their outer webs. The chin, cheeks, and space 
surrounding the eye are devoid of feathers. 
A second example only differs in having the ferruginous portion of the rectrices of a 
paler hue, almost buff, and by the absence of the narrow black exterior fringe. 
The adult female differs from the male in being entirely black, with the exception 
of the rectrices, which are marked and coloured as in the male. In one example the 
entire outer web of the fifth pair of rectrices is black; in another this is only partially 
the case. 
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