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ANORRHINUS ALBOCRISTATUS 



WHITE-CEESTED HOENBILL. 



Buceros albocristatus, Cassin, Journ. Acad. Nat, Scien. Phil. (1850) vol. L p. 135, pi. 15 ; Hartl. Ornith. "West-Afr. 



(1857) p. 163 ; Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. (1859) p. 139. sp. 162; Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. (1862) p. 9; 



id. Handl. d. Dierk. Vog. pi. 3. fig. 39; Giebel, Tliesaur. Ornith. (1872) p. 495; Reich. Jour, fur Ornith. (1875) 



p. 12. 

 Buceros macrourus, Temm. Mus. Lugd. 



Berenicornis macrourus, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. (1850) p. 91. sp. 2; id. Consp. Vol. Anisod. (1854) p. 2. 

 Berenicornis albocristata, Hartl. Journ. fur Ornith. (1854) p. 127. sp. 391 ; Heine, Journ. fur Ornith. (1860) p. 188. 



sp. 148; Sharpe, Ibis (1869) p. 385. 

 Buceros {Berenicornis) albo-cristatus, G. R. Gray, Hand-1. Birds (1870) pt. ii. p. 128. sp. 7883. 



Hab. Sierra Leone, St. Paul's River (Cassin) ; Rio Boutry, Ashantee (Pel) ; Gaboon (Du Chaillu). 



Cassin, in the Journal of the Philadelphia Academy (I. c), states : — " The specimen above 

 described I received several years since from Robert Mac Dowell, M.D., Surgeon, attached to the 

 Colonial Government of Sierra Leone, an enthusiastic naturalist, who obtained it on the banks of 

 the St. Paul river. This species resembles no other that I have seen, or of which I can find a 

 description, and may at once be recognized by its white erect crest and long tail." Bonaparte, 

 in his * Conspectus Generum Avium,' includes this species under the name of macrourus. This is 

 attributed by Schlegel and others to Temminck. I cannot ascertain that such a name was ever 

 published, but was probably merely a manuscript one attached to some specimen in the Ley den 

 Museum. This of course cannot be noticed ; and Mr. Cassin's name therefore has priority, and is 

 the one that has been generally adopted. The present species is still rare in collections, although 

 doubtless not uncommon in its native haunts. Its long white crest renders it very conspicuous 

 among the Bucerotidse, and makes it one of the most attractive species of the family. It ranges 

 from Sierra Leone to the Gaboon, though perhaps it is not found in Pantee. 



Bill black, a triangular yellow spot at base of maxilla. A small thin casque, with a prominent 

 ridge on the side extends along the culmen for nearly its entire length, its anterior end being 

 upright. Head covered by a long loose full crest, white ; the feathers on top of head having 

 black shafts and tips. Plumage of body black. Wings black with a green reflection ; lesser 

 coverts, secondaries, and primaries tipped with white. Tail dark green, tipped with white. 



Total length 24 inches ; wing 8J ; tail 16. 



Female like the male, but with a smaller bill and crest. 





