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vation. We mult not take in the depraved flate of appetite 

 often feen in birds when in confinement, perhaps confented to by 

 them more from necejjiiy than choice., for want of having it in our 

 power to give them what iS better adapted toth-eir palate. 



i. Buceros Rhinoceros, Lin. Syft.'x. p. 153. N"3. 



•f-RHINOCEROS Le Calao des Indes, Brif. orn. iv. p. 571. N° 4. 



Le Calao Rhinoceros, Buf. oif. vii. p. 161. 

 Bee de l'oifeau Rhinoceros, PL enl. 934. 

 Corvus indicus cornutus, leu Rhinoceros avis Bontii, &c. Rati Syn. p. 40. 



N°8. 

 Horned Indian Raven, or Rhinoceros-bird, Will. orn. p. 127. t, 17. tie 

 bead. 



"' — — Edw,. glean, pi. 281. fig. B. the head. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description; " DO not find any author who has defcribed this, except 

 Brijfon* ; who fays, that it is three feet in length, almoft two 

 feet three quarters in breadth, and is nearly as big as a Turkey. 

 The bill is ten inches long, and two inches and a half thick 

 at thebafe; the upper mandible is red at the bafe, and whitifh 

 yellow towards the tip ; the lower one wholly of a whitifh yellow, 

 except at the bafe, where it is black : on the top of the upper 

 mandible is an appendage, as large as the bill itfelf, and turning 

 upwards, contrary to that of the bill, both of the mandibles of 

 which bend downwards j this curved horn meafures eight inches 

 in length, is four inches broad, varied with white and black, 

 and is, as it were, divided longitudinally by a line of black 

 on each fide : the noftrils are placed at the bafe of the bill : the 



* Orn. edit.inSvo. Lug. Bat. 1763. vol. ii. p. 206. 



head, 



