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"'• necks were pretty long, one of which was of a faffron-colour, 

 " the other black : they had very large bills, much like a ram's 

 " horn : their legs were ftrong and fliort, and their claws like a 

 " pigeon's : their wings of an ordinary length; yet they make a 

 " great noife when they fly, which they do heavily. They feed 

 " on berries, and perch on the higheft trees. Their flefh is 

 " fweet." 



In a defcription of the fame, with which I was favoured by 

 Mr. Pennant, I find that the colour of the bill is yellowifh, with a 

 black fpot at the bafe of the lower mandible : beyond the eye a 

 naked blueifh fl<in : crown black : head, neck, back, and coverts 

 of the wings, dark grey, clouded with black: primaries black, 

 their ends white : tail black, outmoft feather on each fide white on 

 the upper half: legs ftrong, fhort, and blueifh. 



This was met with in the ifland of Ceylon, and fuppofed to be a Place. 



young bird. 



I have met with the fegments of the appendage of the bill, from 

 four to feven in number, in different fpecimens, which may lead 

 one to think that the number increafes with the age of the bird. 

 Dampier does not fay the number on the bill in his figure, but I 

 think feven may be counted ; and if fo, perhaps it was an adult 

 bird. That defcribed by Mr. Pennant had only fi^ve fegments. 



Calao de Gingi, Son. Foy, Ind. ii. p. 214. pi. 121. 13. 



GINGI H. 



T ENGTH two feet. The bill long and bent ; on the top, as Description. 



common in this genus, an appendage which points forward, 



and is fharp at the end, appearing not unlike a fmaller bill placed 



on the top of a larger -, edges of the mandibles jagged j the colour 



a of 



