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ANORRHINUS TICKELLI. 



TICKELL'S HOKNBILL, 



Buceros tickelli, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vol. xxiv. pp. 266, 285, vol. xxviii. p. 412; Jerd. Ibis, (1872) p. 5. 



Toccus tickelli, Tickell, Ibis, (1864) p. 173, pi. iii. 



Meniceros tickellice, Hume, Str. Feath. vol. ii. (1874) p. 470. 



Anorrhinus tickelli, Blyth, Cat. Mamm. & Birds Burma, (1875) p. 69. sp. 70. 



Cranorrhinus corrugatus, Blyth, Cat. Mamm. & Birds Burma, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vol. xliii. p. 69 (1875), juv. 



Anorrhinus tickelli, Godw.-Aust. Ibis, (1878) p. 206. 



Ocyceros tickelli, Davids. Str. Feath. vol. vi. (1878) p. 103; Hume, Str. Feath. vol. vii. (1879) p. 499. 



Ocyceros tickelli^, Bingham, Str. Feath. vol. viii. (1879) p. 194. 



Hab. Tenasserim Hills (Tickell) ; Mountains of Amherst Province, Burma, up to 400 feet of elevation 

 (Blyth) ; Khasi Hills (Godwin- Austen) ; Thoungyah Hills, Kan Karyit (Darling). 



The A. tickelli was first described by the late Mr. Blyth from an immature specimen obtained 

 by Tickell in the Tenasserim Hills. Blyth placed it in the genus Buceros, while Tickell and 

 Jerdon deemed it a Toccus. Its proper generic position, however, is with Anorrhinus, and it is 

 a closely allied form to A. galeritus. 



Tickell found this species from about the base of the Tenasserim Hills up to a height of 4000 

 feet. The birds were most abundant on the Siamese side of the range, appearing in pairs or small 

 flocks of five or six individuals. Their voice was loud and plaintive, resembling " whey-whey, 

 whey-whey" and whilst feeding they continually kept up a low cackle like parrots. The flight 

 was performed by regular flappings of the wings, like R. subruficollis, and not with alternate 

 flappings and sailings, like some other species of this family, and they generally flew at high 

 elevations. The specimen figured in ' The Ibis ' (I. c.) was procured at Thengangyee sakan, a place on 

 the wild path used by travellers going from the Shan States of Yahan, in Siam, to Moulmein. The 

 food of this species is fruits. Some years afterwards Col. Tickell met this Hornbill a second time 

 in the flat forest lying along the south side of the Houngthrau river, to the south of Thengangyee 

 sakan, and on a considerably lower level. They were very wild and could not be approached ; but 

 on his last day's march through the forest he met with three individuals near a Karen clearing, 

 two of which one of his followers succeeded in securing. They both proved to be males, not 

 differing, however, in plumage from the specimen he first obtained, which was a female. 



No other examples of this species were obtained, since Tickell met with it, until last year, 

 when Mr. Hume, knowing my great desire to present illustrations of the adult in this work, 

 most generously deputed his assistant curator, Mr. G. Darling, to visit the only place known to him 

 which they frequented ; and after much trouble he succeeded in securing a series of both sexes. 



