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in the cold j and, as the winter approached, died, unable to bear 

 ihe feverity of the climate, fo different to its nature *. 



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Buceros hydrocorax, Lin. Sjfi. i. p. 153. N° 2. 



iLc CalaO, Brif. am. iv. p. 556. N° I. t. 45. 



Le Calao des Moluques, Buf. oif. vii. p. 147.— vol. iii. p. 41. 1 



PL enl. 283. 



Le Corbeau Indien, Orn. de Salern. p. 91. N° 8. pi. 9. f. 3. 

 Corvus Indicus, Rait Syn. p. 40. N° 7. — Will. orn. t. 17. 

 Bontius's Indian Raven, Will, orn. p. 126. N° 7. 



*TPHIS bird is rather bigger than a Cock : length two feet four 

 inches. The bill is two inches and a half thick at the 

 bafe, five inches in length, and bends a little downwards ; both 

 mandibles are dentated on the edges, but the under one is molt 

 fo j on the top is an additional excrefcence, of the fame texture 



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* In the Planchees enhminees, N° 873, is a bird not far differing from this 

 laft, if not meant for the fame. The diftribution of colours on the bill fs the 

 feme, but on this are exprefied three double longitudinal furrows, placed at 

 nearly equal diftances, not mentioned in Bujva's defcription of that bird : a lit- 

 tle way from the bafe of the under mandible is a white fpot : the belly, vent, and 

 thighs, white : the reft of the body black: the two middle tail feathers black; 

 the others wholly white. 



I make no doubt but all the above are the fame fpecies, differing merely ia 

 fex or age ; and it is very probable, that the one defcribed from my fpecimen, 

 having the bill very fmooth, as well as its being lefs, may be a young bird ; as, 

 perhaps, the wrinkles feen in the Planchees enluminees, as well as in a bill now in 

 the Lcverian Mufeum, may be the effecT: of mature age : witnefs the horns of 

 cows, and other animals. — Mem. Bujfon refers to pi. 873, in his lift, vol, vii. 

 |>. 140, though he does not in his defcription of the bird, 



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