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Buceros bicornis, Lin. Sjft, i. p. 153. N° 1. 



Le Calao des Philippines, Sri/, orn, iv p. t;68. N°2> 



~- Buf. oif. vii p. 15.7. 



Rhinoceros avis, ima variecas, Will. orn. t. 17. I. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf The bill. 



>TpHE body is the fize of a large Fowl : colour above black, 

 ■*■ beneath white. The bill is very large, being two inches 

 and three quarters thick at the bafe, and nine inches in length ; 

 the colour of it is reddifb, but the bafe of the lower mandible 

 black : on the top of the bill is an additional horny fubftance, 

 fix inches in length, and three in breadth, reaching backwards 

 further than the eyes, fomewhat concave on the top, and project- 

 ing forwards as it were into two angles ; the hinder part is 

 rounded, and reaches to the hind head ; this is of the fame co- 

 lour as the bill : the noftrils are placed at the bafe of the bill, 

 beneath this laft horny fubftance : on the quills is a white fpot : 

 the ten middle feathers of the tail are black j the outer ones 

 white : the legs are greenifh. 



Inhabits the Philippine IJles. Linnauts fays, China, Stratfundy 

 and likewife adds, that the tail is pretty long. 



*■ PHILIPPINE 

 H. 



Description, 



Place. 



Calao, vel Cayao, Phil. Tranf. vol. xxiii. p. 1394*. 



3- 

 Var. A. 



'"p^HIS fpecies is about the fize of a Hen. The bill is fomewhat Description* 



bent, ferrated, diaphanous, and of the colour of cinnabar, and 

 near feven inches long; the mandibles are equal, an inch and half 



• There defcribed by the Rev. J. G. Camel, a reiident in the Philippine IJles. 



Y y broad. 



