ANTHRACOCEROS MALABARICUS 



PIED HOKNBILL. 



Pied Hornbill, Lath. Gen. Syn. (1781) vol. i. p. 349. sp. 6, pi. xi. 



Buceros malabaricus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. (1788) vol. i. p. 359. sp. 7; Lath. Ind. Orn. (1790), vol. i. p. 143. sp. 6; 



M'Clell. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1839) p. 164; Temm. Plan. Col. (1824) vol. ii. sp. 11 (text) ; Vieill. Nouv. Diet! 



Hist. Nat. vol. iv. (1816) p. 595; Less. Trait. Ornith. (1831) p. 254. sp. 8; Ersch u. Grub. Ency. (1831) p. 



285 ; Mull. & Schleg. Verh. Geschied. Neder. Ind. iv. (1839-44) pp. 22, 28. 

 Buceros albicornis, Wilkes ? Ency. Lond. vol. iii. (1808) p. 479. 

 Buceros albirostris, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. viii. (1811) p. 13 : Vieill. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. vol. iv. (1816) p. 590; 



Wagl. Syst. Av. (1827) sp. 11 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. Asiat. Soc. Beng. (1849) pp. 43 & 803. sp. 179; Tickel{ 



Ibis (1864) p. 179; Blyth, Ibis (1864) p. 412; id. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. (1843) vol. xii. pt. ii. p. 995; 



Gray, Hand-1. B. pt. ii. (1870) p. 128. sp. 7874. 

 Buceros leucogaster, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. (1843) vol. x. p. 922 (juv.), vol. xii. p. 177 (1843). 

 Buceros nigralbus, Hodg. Gray, Zool. Misc. (1844) p. 85. 

 Buceros affinis 3 Hutton, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vol. xviii. p. 802; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. Asiat. Soc. Beng. (1849) 



p. 43. sp. 178; Gray, Hand-1. B. pt. ii. (1870) p. 128. sp. 7875. 

 Hydrocissa albirostris, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.-Ind. Co. (1856-8) vol. ii. p. 589. sp. 870; Cab. & Hein. 



Mus. Hein. Th. ii. (1860) p. 171. no. 471; Jerd. B. Ind. vol. i. (1862) p. 247. sp. 142; Blyth, Ibis (1866) 



p. 351 ; Blanford, Ibis (1870) p. 466 ; Jerd. Ibis (1872) p. 5. sp. 142 ; Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas (1862) p. 6 ; Blyth, 



B. of Burma (1875) p. 68. sp. 69; Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1875) p. 102; Salvad. Cat. Ucelli Bor. p. 82. 

 Hydrocissa affinis, Jerd. B. Ind. vol. i. p. 247. sp. 143 (1862) ; Blyth, Ibis (1866) p. 349. 

 Hydrocissa coronata, Godwin- Austen, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. (1870) p. 95. 



Hab. Midnapore district, Bajmahal, Monghyr, Nepal, Assam, Sylhet, Arrakan, Tenasserim Provinces, Deyra 

 Doon, Burma, Tonghoo; Karen Hills (Blyth) ; Borneo (Schlegel) ; Labuan (Low). 



Gmelin was the first to describe this bird ; and although the colouring of the tail renders it 

 easy to he distinguished from its near relatives the A. coronatus and A. convexus, yet it has been 

 frequently confounded with them, and the synonymy has not been an easy task to unravel. 

 Shaw, as in the case of A. coronatus, conferred the name of albirostris upon the species, 

 evidently oblivious of Gmelin's prior name ; and many writers have followed him, so that it is 

 perhaps better known by Shaw's appellation than by its rightful one of malabaricus. It differs 

 from both coronatus and convexus in having the lateral tail-feathers black to within a short distance 

 of the tips, which are white, whereas in the other species these feathers are wholly white ; and 

 from coronatus it can in addition be distinguished by the black patch on the casque extending 

 onto the maxilla, which is never seen in examples of the allied species. It has a more northern 

 range than the coronatus. The two species meet in the jungles of Midnapore, whence the present 

 bird goes north to the base of the Himalayas, and then eastward as far as Burmah. 



Blyth has separated the bird from the Deyra Doon as distinct, under the name of B. affinis, 







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