HOENBILLS 



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bananas, we have not included them under the heading of 

 friends of the farmer, although the good they do very 

 probably outweighs the harm. 



Kg. 



-Crowned Hornbill at nest hole. 



The nidification of this bird is already a time-worn theme, 

 but we cannot refrain from giving the somewhat sad history 

 of the picture illustrating the species in this work. 



Early one morning, when we were ready to take a photo- 

 graph at a nest hole which had been discovered, containing 

 young, we could not see the parent birds about, which was 

 strange, as we knew for certain that they had young ones. 



