PAM. BUCEROMIDAz ZI 
South Africa (from the 
Cape region to the 
Katanga). 
2. Lophoceros nasutus var. epirhina (Sundevall). 
Buceros epirhinus Sundevall, Oefv. Vet.-Akad. Foérh. p. 108 (1850). 
Buceros nasatus var. caffer, Sandevall, ibidem, p. 108 (1850). 
Lophoceros epirhinus Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Heinean. Vol. 2, p. 167 (1860). 
Tockus poectlorhynchus Kirk (nec Lafresnaye), The Ibis, p. 327 (1864). 
Buceros, Tockus et Lophoceros nasutus (part.) auct. plur. (nec Linnzus). 
Lophoceros nasutus var, epirhina, Dubois, Syn. Avium, Vol. 1, p. 103 (1899). 
Lophoceyos nasutus epirhinus, Reichenow, Vée. Afr. Vol. 2, p. 258 (1904). 
16. GENUS ALOPHIUS EmpricH « EHRENBERG 
Alophius Hemprich & Ehrenberg, Symb. Phys. Avium,fol.2,foot-note (1828) (type: Buceros evythrorhynchus). 
Synonym : Tockus Lesson, Traité d’}Ornith. p. 252 (1831) (type : Buceros erythrorhynchus). 
Characters. Bill long, slender, much curved; mandible compressed laterallly along the 
culmen; no casque. Sides of throat more or less naked. Wings and tail long, the latter rounded. 
Size small. 
Geographical Distribution. Atrica, \WWestern India, Ceylon. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES AND VARIETIES 
A. Under parts grey or greyish-white. 
1. Under parts grey ; middle and second pairs of tail-feathers brownish black, 
three outer pairs the same, but with whiteends . . . A. GRISEUS. 
. Under parts greyish-white ; middle and second pairs of Tee blackish. 
brown with white ends; remaining feathers white, some black on the basal 
Well OF Wie COSUIOWE, 3 5 2 o- 4 0 6 3c a © 6 5 5 o oF AN, GENGATISNGIS, 
B. Wing-coverts spotted or margined with white. 
a. Wing-coverts spotted with white. 
3. Bill very long, yellowish ved, dark purple towards the tip; middle parr of 
tail-feathers with black shafis. . . . . . A. MONTEIRI. 
4. Bill bright scarlet ; middle pair of tail- vee zith Dane shafts . . . AS cAMURUS- 
b. Wing-coverts margined with white. 
5. Bill dull red, whitish on the basal part of the upper mandible ; middle parr 
of tail-feathers with black shafts ; thivd and fourth pairs white . . . A. HEMPRICHI. 
C. A white or pale buff stripe from the nape down the centre of the back. 
c. Wing-coverts spotted with white ; middle pair of tail-feathers with black or blackish 
shafts. 
c!. Bill ved. 
6. Top of the head and forehead dark grey tinged with brown; ear-coverts, 
cheeks and sides of neck white edged with grey ; two outer tatl-feathers black 
UPUTHs 5 6 6 6 » 59 8 =o 09 & 9 9 5 6 5 6 6 © Jo DUSVINAROIMEHANGENOS. 
7. Forehead, cheeks and sides of the head pure white; two outey tarl-feathers 
ile y MN Me eT ew eh cre) hea vs anes Jaye ee ee ce) ee PA DANAREN SIS: 
8. Like A. damarensis, but much smaller . . . . . . . =. +. +. A MEDIANA. 
d. Bill ovange-yellow. 
e. Feathers on the chest white edged with greyish black. 
g. Middle primaries spotted with white on the outey web only . . . . . A. LEUCOMELAS. 
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