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ANORRHINUS GALERITUS. 



BUSHY-CEESTED HOENBILL. 





Jftwerew galeritus, Temm. Plan. Col. (1830) vol. ii. pi. 520 ; Mull. & Schleg. Verh. Gesch. Ned. Ind. (1839-44) 



pp. 23, 28, v; Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. ii. (1847) p. 399. sp. 12; Low, Sarawak, p. 411 (1848); Blyth, Cat. 



Birds Mus. Asiat. Soc. (1849) p. 44. sp. 185 ; Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. (1862) p. 8. 

 Buceros carinatus, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vol. xiv. pt. i. (1845) p. 187 (juv.) . 

 Anorrhinus galeritus, Reich. Syst. Av. (1849) pi. 49; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.-Ind. Co. (1856-8) vol. ii. 



p. 594. sp. 874 ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1859) p. 450 ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. vol. ii. (1860) p. 594. 



sp. 874; Salv. Ucc. di Borneo, p. 79 (1874) ; Lord Tweedd. Ibis (1877) p. 292; Hume, Str. Feath. (1878) 



pp. 109, 500. 

 Hydrocissa galerita, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. (1850) p. 90. sp. 3 ; Sclat. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1863) p. 214. 

 Anthracoceros galeritus, Bon. Consp. Vol. Anisod. (1854) p. 2. gen. 9. sp. 22. 

 Buceros (Anorrhinus) galeritus, Gray, Hand-1. B. pt. ii. (1870) p. 128. sp. 7877. 

 Anorrhinus galeritus, Sharpe, Ibis (1879) p. 246. 



Hab. Malayan peninsula (Blyth) ; Uwalabo, Malawoon, Bankasoon, Tenasserim (Hume) ; Sumatra 

 (S. Mtjller) ; Borneo (Schlegel, Diard) ; Lawas river (Ussher) ; Monte Sakoembang, Lumbidan, Borneo 

 (Treacher, Lawut, S. Muller) ; Banjermassing (Motley) ; Sarawak (Doria, Beccari). 



This species is Beichenbach's type of his genus Anorrhinus, distinguished by the keel-shaped 

 casque or crest covering the base of the culmen and sloping gradually forward to the base of the 

 maxilla. It is a fine species, and cannot be separated generically from A, comatus, which Bona- 

 parte placed in his genus Berenicomis. It was described by Temminck, and a fair figure given in 

 bis 'Planches Coloriees.' The synonymy presents no difficulties, the species never having received 

 a second appellation. 



I am indebted to Messrs. Hume and Davison for the following account of this bird, which is 

 especially welcome from the fact that but very little has been recorded of its habits by any of 

 those ornithologists who have met with it in its native haunts : — 



These naturalists state : — " Though this species was not uncommon in the forests around 

 Malawoon and Bankasoon, yet it was so very wary and difficult of approach, that only one specimen 

 (a male) was shot by ourselves. We saw them almost daily, always in small parties of five or six, 

 keeping to the densest portions of the forest and the tops of the highest trees. They never fly 

 together, but always one after the other in a string or line. When about to start, they set up a 

 sort of gabbling chorus; and after a few seconds, perhaps half a minute, of vociferous altercation, 

 one flies away, followed immediately by another and another, till all have left. 



"Their note is very similar to that of E. albirostris (malabarica); and, like these, they con- 

 tinually utter it at short intervals so long as they remain perched. 



