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tlopes on the fore part, is abrupt behind, and only reaches the 

 forehead : the crown of the head is black j the reft of the head, 

 neck, breaft, and back, grey : the wings part grey, part black ; 

 the ends of the quills white: tail longj the middle feathers , 



black ; the lower part of the fide ones the fame, the reft of the 

 length white. 



i6. 

 GREEN-WING- 



13 ILL pale yellow j on the top a prominence, which is abrupt ^^ ^' 



at each end J the further half part yellow, part black; bafe Description, 



of the lower mandible black ; near that a naked fpot of a blueifti 



white : beneath the eye a tuft of black hairs : plumage of the 



head, neck, back, wings, and tail, black j wings glofled with 



green : the outmoft feathers of the tail, and upper part of the 



quills, and belly, white: legs blueifti. 



The native place of this and the laft not certain. — Mr. Pen' 

 nant. 



From the infpedtion of feveral individuals of the Hornbill ge- 

 nus, as well as the drawings of others, 1 have much reafon to fup- 

 pofe, tl>at they not only vary among one another in the adult 

 ftate, but more particularly fo at various periods of age ; from 

 which we may conclude, that feveral of the above-mentioned are -- 

 of the fame fpecies, though defcribed as diftinft; a circumftance 

 only to be determined hereafter, by fuch obfervant naturalifts -as 

 may chance to refide where thefe birds frequent. 



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