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colour of it black, with a crefcent of white at the back part : irides 

 red brown : between the bill and eye bare and black : under the 

 throat, from eye to eye, a bare white fpace : the head, neck, and 

 upper parts of the body, are black : on the coverts two white fea- 

 thers : the fecond quills black, the end half white i greater quills 

 black : two middle tail feathers black at the bafe, and white the 

 reft of their length ; the others entirely white ; breaft, belly, 

 thighs, and vent, white : legs black. 



This feenas to differ both from my former defcription and that 

 of Buffon following it, though I efteem them the fame : but the 

 variation of the tail feathers-is fingular. I have likewife obfervcd a 

 further variety, in the mufeum of the late Mr. Boddam, two feet fix 

 inches in length, wherein the two middle tail feathers were black, 

 and all the others white; the quills white only at the tips. Mr. 

 Boddam's bird came from Bengal, where it is called Cherry deanijlo, 

 or Bird of Jbiowledge. 



I have lately feen one of thefe among fome drawings from In- 

 dia, wherein all the tail feathers were black, with the ends white ; 

 and two large patches of white, the one larger than the other, at 

 the bafe of the under jaw. It is faid to feed on rice za<^ fruits: 

 hence called the Mafter of Rice. 



12. Wreathed Hornbill, Gen, Syn. i. p. 358. N* 12. — Damp. Fey. vol. iii.pt. 2. 



WREATHED H. p. i6s.pl. 3. 



7~\ A MP IE R met with this bird at the ifland of Ceram and New 



Guinea, and defcribes it nearly in the following words : " One 



■^ " of my mafter's mates killed two fowls as big as Crows, of a 



'''black colour, excepting that the tails were all white: their 



" necks 



