

will be found fully worked out. After Latham's, the next name that has priority is that of 

 undulatus, Shaw, which is the one necessary to adopt for the species. 



A very curious character of this bird is its casque formed of a succession of overlapping 

 scale-like ridges : these grow from the base, and push forward those in front, the lengthening of 

 the casque beyond a certain limit being prevented by the anterior ridges scaling off. In the young 

 these scale-like protuberances are larger, and thinner in substance, growing narrower and closer 

 by degrees. 



According to Horsfield this bird is very abundant in the forests of Blambaugan, in the 

 eastern end of Java, where it is called barong chimburuan (or "jealous bird") on account of 

 the watchfulness displayed by the male during the period the female is immured in the hollow of 

 a tree performing the duties of incubation ; for, as stated by the natives, should another male 

 approach the nest during the husband's absence, he leaves the unfortunate wife to perish with 

 hunger, as she is unable to get out of her walled prison. 



Dr. Cantor states that " the male has the bill (yellowish) white ; iris pale crimson ; gular 

 pouch rich gamboge yellow, with two transverse black bars ; feet blackish. And the female has 

 the iris narrow, golden round the pupil, the rest golden vandyke ; eyelids brick-colour ; pouch 

 dirty azure, with two transverse black bars ; feet blackish grey. The young male has the iris 

 mother-of-pearl colour ; bill yellow at the point, and bluish green at the base ; space around the 

 eyes, and pouch, yellow, with the transverse black bars indistinct; feet bluish black." 



"This Hornbill," says Jerdon, "has been killed in North Cachar by Major Godwin- Austen. 

 It has not hitherto been recorded from further north than Arakan. He gives the dimensions as 

 follows :— length 3 feet 2 inches ; wing 18 J- inches ; extent 5 feet 2 inches ; tail 12 inches ; bill 

 6 1 inches ; depth of bill 3 inches." 



This measurement gives the length of the species greater than I have been able to find in the 

 dried skins ; and it seems to me that the specimen described above must have been unusually 

 large, although, with the exception of the length, it does not differ much from the 



average. 



Male.—Bill with a roughened casque-like protuberance projecting from the base of the 

 culmen for nearly half its length, in the form of large scales, indented by several transverse 

 grooves; base of maxilla and mandible transversely grooved; bill white, with its base deep 

 chestnut-red, this being more extensive on the mandible, where it reaches on the gonys nearly half 

 its length. The scaly protuberance on the culmen also chestnut, becoming yellowish towards its 

 anterior terminus. Bare skin around the eye pinkish ; that of the throat rich yellow, with a 

 conspicuous broken ring of dark blue on its lower part. Sides of the head yellowish ; lower portion 

 of neck to the breast pure white. Top of head and occiput dark chestnut. Back of neck and 

 entire plumage of the body black, with green reflections. Tail pure white. Total length 29* 

 inches; wing 18 j ; tail 13; bill 6± height at base 3; tarsus 2£. 



Female.-The naked skin of throat and around the eyes bright blue. Entire plumage 

 black. Tail white. Total length 28 inches, wing 16fc tail 11, bill 6J, tarsus 2. 





