N. HOLLAND 
CHANNEL- 
BILL. 
DESCRIPTION. 
C.AUASN NIE je Bal BE. 
Genus VIII. CHANNEL-BILL. 
ILL large, convex, cultrated, furrowed or channelled on the 
fides, with the tip bent. 
Nosrxits round, naked, placed at the bafe of the bill. 
Toncue cartilaginous, bifid at the end. 
Toss placed two before and two behind. 
Tait confilting of ten feathers. At prefent we are acquainted with 
only one fpecies belonging to this genus. | 
Sc. Nove Hollandiz, Ind. Ora. i. p. 141: 1. 
Piittaceous Hornbili, PA. Bor. Bay, t. p. 165: 
Anomalous Hornbill, White's Fourn. t. p. 142. 
HE fize of this bird is nearly that of a Crow, and the total length 
is twenty-feven inches: the bill from the gape to the point three 
inches and an half, or rather more *; it is very ftout at its bafe, and 
curved its whole length; the upper mandible hooked at the point; 
the upper part is narrow, ridged, and the fides are channelled; at 
the bafe, clofe to the fetting on of the feathers, the noftrils are placed ; 
thefe are round, and the edges of them furrounded with a naked red 
fkin, which continues on each fide, between them and the eye, and 
alfo furrounds the eye itfelf, but the bare parts are moft confiderable 
above the eye: the tongue is three-fourths the length of the bill, 
thick at the bafe, from thence tothe end flat and cartilaginous, and 
bifid at the end: the head and neck are of an afh coloured grey ; the 
under parts of the body the fame, but paler: back and wings blueith 
* The few I have feen have differed much in the proportionate fize of the bills, 
but I donot recolleé any one with fo {mall a bill as inthat figured in White's Journal. 
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