TOCKUS GRISEUS 



JUNGLE GEET HOBNBUL 



Grey Hornbill, Lath. Gen. Syn. (1787) Supp. p. 72. 



BucerosgrUeus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. (1790) vol. i. p. 147; Shaw, Gen. Zool. (1811) vol. vni. p. 40- Viefll Nonv 

 Diet. Hist. Nat. (1816) vol. iv. p. 594; Dnmont, Diet. Se. Nat. (1817) p. 212; Vieill. Eney. Meth. (1823, 

 vol. i. p. 307; Less. Trait. Ornith. (1831) p. 252. sp. 3; Gray, Gen. Birds (1849) vol. ii. p. 400. sp. 37; Sehle^ 

 Mns. Pays-B. (1862) p. 11 ; Gray, Hand-1. B. (1870) pt. ii.p. 131. sp. 7917; Giebel, Thesanr. Ornith. (1872) 



Buceros cinerascens, Temm. Plan. Col. vol. ii. (text) ; Gray, Gen. Birds (1849) vol. ii. p. 400. sp. 31. 

 To ckus griseus, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. (1850) p. 91. sp. 3. 

 Rhinoplax griseus, Bon. Consp. Vol. Anisod. (1854) p. 3. 

 Toccus gingalensis, Jerd. B. Ind. (1862) vol. i. p. 250 (partim) 

 Toccus griseus, Bonrdillon, Str. Feath. (1876) vol. iv. p. 387. 



Kaldal-haki, Can., Chalotra, Hindoostanee (Jerdon). 



id. Ibis (1866) p. 350, (1872 



Hab. Malabar. 



This is the species described by Latham (I. c.) and mentioned by Jerdon in his < Birds of 

 India ' as Toccus gingalensis. It is apparently quite a common bird in the localities it frequents ; 

 and the following extract from Dr. Jerdon' s work sufficiently indicates the habits of the species. 

 He says : — The " Jungle Grey Hornbill is found in the forests of Malabar and Ceylon. I have seen 

 it nowhere else than in Malabar ; and it is most abundant perhaps in the extreme south, in Tra- 

 vancore and in Ceylon. Its food consists of fruit of various kinds. It is rather a shy bird, is 

 found singly or in pairs, occasionally in small parties, has a harsh call like the others, and is 

 said to breed in the same way." 



Ceylon, mentioned above as a habitat of this bird, is incorrect, as it is not found there, but 

 is represented by the allied species T. gingalensis, Jerdon having confounded the two together. 

 Mr. Bourdillon, who procured this species in the Travancore hills, says it is very common in 

 heavy jungle at an elevation of from 1000 to 3000 feet. Its flight is rapid and easy ; and the bird 

 is very shy, and has a very ludicrous call, reminding one of a Punch-and-Judy show. The male 

 had bright red irides ; and a supposed female, in the Trevandrum Gardens, had pale-grey irides. 

 Mr. Hume remarks that females procured in the Wynaad and on the Cardamon hills only differ 

 in being paler and duller above and below, have less of the green gloss, and only three pairs of the 

 rectrices are tipped with white. " The young bird," he continues, " has the irides dirty yellow ; 

 the bill is entirely pale yellow and smaller, and not overspread with the reddish brown tint of the 

 adult, and has a black patch at the base of the lower mandible, and another on the basal portion 

 of the culmen." 









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