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TOCKUS HEMPRICHII 



HEMPKICH'S HOENBILL. 



Bhmtm faayrfeMi, Ehrenb. Symb. Phys. Av. (1828) fol. a a; Pinsch, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1869) vol vii „ 317- 



Dresser & Blanf. Ibis (1874) p. 338. . ' 



Akmtm IMafef, Riipp. Paun. Abyss. (1835) vol. i. p. 5, tab. 2. fig. 1 • G. R. Gray, Gen. Birds (1849) vol ii 



p. 400. sp. 35; Sehleg. Mus. Pays-B. (1862) p. 13; Von Heugl. Journ. for Ornitb. (1864) p. 270; Finsch 



Trans. Zool. Soc. (1869) vol. vii. p. 279; Giebel, Thes. Ornitb. (1872) p. 500. 

 Toehu limbatus, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. Vog. N.O.-Afr. (1845) p. 79. sp. 325; Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. (1850) p. 92. 



sp. 11 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.-Ind. Co. (1856-8) vol. ii. p. 596. sp. 879. 

 Grammicus limbatus, Bon. Consp. Vol. Anisod. (1854) p. 3. 

 Lophoceros limbatus, Cab. Mus. Hein. (1859-60) p. 168. sp. 6 (note). 

 Toccus hempricMi, Blanf. Geol. & Zool. Abyss. (1870) p. 326; Salvad. Cat. Uccelli Mare Rosso e dei Bogos p 54 



(417). 



Hab. Abyssinia, Senafe (Jesse). 



This species was first described by Ehrenberg {L c.) as Buceros hempricMi. This has been 

 referred to the B. {Lophoceros) nasutus by authors ; but Messrs. Dresser and Blanford, having 

 examined the type in the Berlin Museum, stated in < The Ibis,' 1874, that it was the same as 

 the B. limbatus, Riippell, described some seven years afterwards. Of course this last will have to 

 become a synonym of the older name. It may be as well to remark that Mr. Blanford, in his 

 'Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia' (1870), had already stated that this species was the B. hemprichi 

 of Ehrenberg. The latter' s type was obtained in Abyssinia. It is a fine bird, rather large for the 

 genus compared with the other members, and has not been met with, so far as I am aware, 

 beyond the borders of Abyssinia. Cabanis and Heine, in their list of the Bucerotidse in the 

 Museum Heineanum, include the present species in Lophoceros; but as it has not like the 

 members of that genus an elevated casque, it should not be placed with them. 



Bill rather long, curved, compressed laterally, deep red. Head, neck, upper part of breast 

 and back blackish brown. Wings black, margined with white. Underparts pure white. Tail 

 blackish brown, the two lateral rectrices next to the outermost ones pure white. Iris brown. 



Total length 22 inches, wing 12, tail 11J, bill 5|. 



The naked space on the sides of the throat, according to Roth's notes in Horsfield and 

 Moore's Catalogue of Birds, is black in the male and yellow in the female. With this exception 

 both sexes are alike. 



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