BUCEROS RHINOCEROS 





BHINOCEEOS HOKNBILL, 



Buceros rhinoceros, Linn. Syst. Nat. (1766) vol. i. p. 153; Gmel. Syst. Nat. (1788) vol. i. p. 360; Lath. Ind. 



Ornith. (1790) vol. i. p. 141 ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. (1811) vol. viii. p. 3, pi. 1 ; Vieill. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. 



(1816) vol. iv. p. 598; Dumont, Diet. Sc. Nat. (1817) vol. vi. p. 198; Temm. Planch. Col. (1824) vol. ii. sp. 1 ; 



Ersch n. Grub. Ency. (1824) p. 287; Wagl. Syst. Av. (1827) ; Griff. Anim. King. (1829) vol. ii. p. 432; Less. 



Trait. Ornith. (1831) p. 255; Begbie, Malay Penins. (1834) p. 512; Mull. & Schleg. Verhand. Natuur. 



Geschied. Nederl. Ind. (1839-44) pp. 21, 26; G. E. Gray, Gen. Birds (1849) vol. ii. p. 349. sp. 1; Blyth, Cat. 



Birds Mus. Asiat. Soc. (1849) p. 42 ; Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. (1850) p. 89. sp. 3 ; id. Consp. Voluc. Anisod. 



(1854) p. 184 ; Horsf. and Moore, Cat. Birds Mus. E.-Ind. Co. (1856) vol. ii. p. 582. no. 867 ; Moore, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. (1859) p. 446 ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. (1860) Th. ii. p. 174 ; Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas (1862) 



p. 3; Blyth, Ibis (1866) p. 352; G. E. Gray, Hand-1. Birds (1870) pt. ii. p. 127. sp. 7866; Sclat. Wolf's Zool, 



Sketch. 2nd Ser. pi. xxx.; Giebel, Thes. Ornith. (1872) vol. i. p. 502; Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1873) p. 464, 



(1875) p. 342; Gulliv. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1875) p. 490. 

 Rhinoceros hornbill, Lath. Gen. Syn. (1781) p. 342. sp. 1, vol. i. 

 Uoiseau rhinoceros, Buff. Planch. Enlum. (1783) no. 934 (bill). 



Buceros africanus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. (1788) vol. i. p. 357. sp. 6; Shaw, Gen. Zool. (1811) vol. viii. p. 6. 

 Le calao rhinoceros, Le Vaill. Ois. d'Amer. (1801) pis. i., ii. (bill). 



Buceros rhinoceros, var. a. sumatranus, Mull. & Schleg. Verb. Geschied. Neder. Ind. (1839-44) p. 22. 

 Buceros rhinoceros, var. b. bornensis, Miill. & Schleg. Verh. Geschied. Neder. Ind. (1839-44) p. 22. 

 Buceros rhinoceros, var. c. indica, Miill. & Schleg. Verh. Geschied. Neder. Ind. (1839-44) p. 22. 

 Buceros rhinoceros, var. d. javanica, Miill. & Schleg. Verh. Geschied. Neder. Ind. (1839-44) p. 22. 

 Buceros rhino ceroides, Temm. Mus. Lugd. ; Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. (1850) p. 89. sp. 4; id. Consp. Vol. Anisod. 



(1854) p. 2 (ex Borneo). 

 Buceros sublunata, Temm. Mus. Lugd. ; Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. (1850) p. 90. sp. 5 ; id. Consp. Vol. Anisod. (1854) 



p. 2 ; G. E. Gray, Hand-1. Birds (1870) pt. ii. p. 127. sp. 7867. 

 Buceros rhinoceros sumatranus, Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. (1862) p. 4. 

 Buceros rhinoceros bornensis, Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. (1862) p. 4. 



Hab. Malay peninsula (Blyth) ; Sumatra, Borneo (Wallace, Schlegel). 



The Rhinoceros HornbiU is pretty generally distributed throughout the Malayan peninsula, 

 and is also found in Sumatra and Borneo. The upturned casque renders it very conspicuous, and 

 causes the bird to differ from all the members of the family— so much so that I have retained it, 

 with its near relative from Java,, as the representatives of Linnseus's genus Buceros, and restricted 

 that term in this work to this form. Schlegel has separated the birds from Sumatra and Borneo 

 as races or conspecies of the Malayan species, one of the characters being the width of the black 

 band on the tail. I find that this band varies very much in different specimens, even from the 



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