37° 
PLAGE, 
— 
HELMET 
HORNBILL.. 
DESCRIPTION. 
HORNBILE. 
falty with red, yellow, and brown, growing more dull towards the 
vent. 
Befides the above, I faw another at Mr. Tbomp/on’s, in which only 
part of the head had the red creft, feemingly an intermediate ftate be- 
tween the former two, and may be fuppofed a young bird not yet in 
adult plumage. 
Thefe inhabit New South Wales 
Grnes Ee avo BR NOE LLL. 
Buceros galeatus, Zzd. Orz. i. p. 142. 2. 
Helmet Hornbill, Gex. Syn. i. p. 343. 2. 
S the bill in this bird has been before defcribed at large, it is ne= 
ceffary here only to fay, that it is about eight inches long, and 
has a prodigious fquare callofity, rifing three inches and a half in 
height above the bafe of the upper mandible, projecting over the 
_ eyes*. ‘The plumage on the head, breaft, back,. and wings, is black; 
belly, thighs, and vent, white: the tail is long, cuneiform in fhape, 
and white, with a broad bar of black near the end of each feather. 
The total length of the bird is four feet, of which the tail meafures 
two, for the two middle feathers occupy that fpace, the two next on 
each fide are twenty-one inches, and the three outer ones one foot: 
the wings reach about three inches on the tail: the legs are flout, 
{caly, and black. 
A pretty complete fpecimen of this bird is in the Britifh Mu/eum. 
® Good figures of it may be feen in Edavards, pl. 281, CPi. Exl, 933> 
