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Genus VIII. HORNBILL 



N° 



Rhinoceros H. 

 Helmet H. 

 Philippine H„ 



A. H. 



Abyffinian H. 

 African H. 



I. 



2. 



3- 



4- 



5- 



6. Pied H. 



N°7. 

 8. 



9- 



10, 



ii, 



Indian H. 

 Panayan H. 

 Manilla H. 

 Black- billed H. 

 A. Red- billed H. 

 White H. 



ia. Wreathed H. 



THIS genus has a great bending bill, with frequently a large 

 protuberance, refembling another bill, on the upper man- 

 dible: edges jagged. 



Noftrils fmall, round, placed behind the bafe of the bill. 



Tongue fmall, fhort *. 



Legs fcaly : toes, three forward, one backward j the middle 

 one connected to the outmoft as far as the third joint, and to the 

 inner one as far as the firft. 



The birds of this genus feem to hold the fame place in the old 

 continent as the Toucans do in the new, the laft-named birds be- 

 ing found in America only. Perhaps the fame food may be ufual 

 to both j if fo, fruits fhould be the greatefl part of their diet. 

 As to their eating fifh f, it feems not to be fully proved, though 

 many authors affert it: this mull be determined by future obfer- 



* Scarce an inch long in one fpecies. Pbil.Tranf. vol. xxiii. p. 1394. 

 t That they eat fejb by choice feems manifeft from fe venal obfervaciocs 

 below. 



vation,. 



