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head, neck, back, breaft, and upper part of the belly, are black : 

 the lower belly and rump dirty white : the under tail coverts 

 half black half white: tail twelve inches in length: the feathers 

 white at the bafe and ends, and black in the middle : the legs and 

 claws dull grey. This varies in wanting the black line on each 

 fide of the bill. 



The fpecimen in Sir A. Lever's Mufeum anfwers to this defcrip- 

 tion of Briffon, and has not the black line on the bill. That bird 

 is full four feet in length, and is as big as a middle-fized Tur- 

 key : the vent feathers are whitifh : the tail white, except a bar 

 of three inches in breadth, and about the fame diftance from the 

 end : the reft as in Briffon, whofe bird was moft likely a young one. 



This fpecimen is faid to have come from Java; it is alfo Place anb 

 found in Sumatra, the Philippine IJlands, and other parts of the 

 Eaft Indies. Thefe birds are faid to feed on flefh and carrion * ; 

 and that they follow the hunters for the purpofe of feeding on 

 the entrails of the beafts which they kill ; that they chafe rats 

 and mice, and, after preffing them flat with the bill in a peculiar 

 manner, toffing them up into the air, fwallow them whole im- 

 mediately on their defcent : and it may be remarked, that in 

 this cafe the tongue is no hindrance, being not above an inch in 

 length f . 



Le Calao a cafque rond, Buf. cif. vii. p. 159, 2 . 



Tete de Calao a cafque rond, PL enl. 933. °*~ HELMET 

 See a fig. of the fame in Ediu. t.' 281. f. C. H * 



Leo. Muf. 



DO not find a defcription of the body of this bird in any au- Descrwtioh, 

 thor, though the bill is pretty common in moft collections. 



* Rtntius Nat. Hift, b.-v. ch. in- + Pbih Tranf* N° 285. 



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