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_ Le Calao d' Afrique, Brif. orn. iv. p. 570. N° 3. 



AFRICAN Le Brae, ou Calao d' Afrique, Buf. oif. vii. p. 154. 



H. Trompette de Brae, ou l'Oifeau trompette, Labat. Jfir. ccc. ]x. p. 160. i6l. 



figure imperfeSl. 

 Rhinoceros avis fecunda varietas, Will. orn. pi. 17.— Ma/I Bejl. t. 9. N°7. 



Description. r |™'HIS bird is faid by Labat to be of the fize of a Turkey: the 

 colour of the plumage wholly black. The bill and head, 

 . meafured together, were equal to eighteen inches: the figure of 

 the bill not unlike our third fpecies ; but the horny appendage on 

 the top of the upper mandible is almoft ftrait at the end, or at- 

 leaft turns up but very little, and ends almoft in a point; the co- 

 lour is partly red, partly yellow ; the edges of both mandibles 

 black, and the bafe of both of the fame colour. Neither Briffon 

 nor Buffon add any thing to this account of Labat, neither of 

 them having, I fuppofe, met with the bird. 



A fpecimen of this bird is in the Leyden Mufeum, of which there 

 is a coloured print * in poffeffion of Sir A. Lever, which informs 

 us, that the general colour is black : the hind head fomewhat 

 crefted : the belly and vent white : the tail near one foot in 

 length, the feathers of which are black, with white tips. 



both as to fize and feathers, that one might very eafily miftake them. I killed 

 two with the fame (hot, one male, the other female. They had both a kind of 

 black hollow helmet on the head, of the fame bulk and figure as that of the 

 ■Co/bar: upon their neck they had along plate, like a very bright vellum, which 

 was red in the male, and blue in the female." He fays, that the Negroes give 

 it the name of Guinar, and efteem it as a Marabou, or facred animal, and liken 

 it to the Gallinazo ; but that is the Carrion Vulture. See Adanf. Voy, to Senegal, 

 p. 309. Eng. Edit. 



* It is called in the print Calao des Indes. 



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