BUOEBOTIDJ]: 



BUCOKAX 



103 



Iris pale sea-green ; naked skin round the eye and of the throat 

 and neck, vermilion-red ; legs black. 



Length about 42-0; wing 24-0; tail 13-5; culmen including 

 casque 8-75 ; tarsus 5-5. 



The female resembles the male in plumage but the casque is 

 somewhat narrower and the greater part of the bare skin of the neck 

 is dark blue, leaving only an outside rim and the skin round the eye 



Pig. 34. — Bucorax cafer* 



scarlet-red ; wing 21-5 ; bill and casque 7"75. "Weight, according to 

 Ayres, 9 lbs. 



Kirby states that the young bird is mottled-grey all over. 



Distribution. — The Brom-vogel is found only in the eastern 

 half of the Colony, whence it ranges through Natal, Zululand, the 

 lower districts of the Transvaal and Mashonaland to the Zambesi, 



• This figure is not quite correct in one particular ; when walking the toes 

 are not flat upon the ground but bent up somewhat as if the bird were perching. 



