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Xe Calao a bee cizele de l'ifle de Panay, Son. Voy. p. 122. t. 82. the male, g_ 



t. 83. the female. PAN AY AN 



Le Calao de l'ifle de Panay, Buf. oif, vii. p. 145.— iY. enl, 780. le male, "" 



781. lafemelle. 



TN fize, fays Sonnerat, it equals our Raven. The bill is very Description. 



long, arched, toothed at the edges, pointed at the end, and 

 comprefled on the fides, which are ridged tranfverfely from the bafe . 

 to two-thirds of its length; the ridges are brown, and the fur- 

 rowed parts between the colour of orpiment ; the reft of the bill 

 to the end is fmooth and brown : on the top of the upper man- 

 dible, from the bafe to the middle, is an appendage like the bill, 

 which is flatted at the fides, fharp at the top, and cut to a Iharp 

 angle before ; and, as far as it extends, is as broad as that part of 

 the bill which it covers, and is as deep as broad : the eye is fur- 

 rounded by a naked brown fkin : the eye-lids furnifhed with a 

 circle of fhort ftiff hairs or briftles, forming true eye-lafhes : the 

 iris is whitifh. : the head, neck, wings, and back, are of a greenifh 

 black, changing into blue in different lights : the upper part of 

 the breaft light red brown : belly, thighs, and rump, deep red 

 brown : the tail confifts of ten feathers, two-thirds of which from 

 the bafe are rufous yellow, and one-third to the end black : the 

 legs are of a lead-colour: toes placed three before and one be- 

 hind ; the middle toe united to the outer one to the third articu- 

 lation, but to the inner toe only as far as the firfL 



The female is of the fame fize as the male, but differs in the Female, 

 head and neck being wholly white, except a triangular large 

 green-black fpot, which arifes beneath the bafe of the bill, palling 



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