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angle, with the true culmen ; the margins of the bill are 

 serrated, and the whole bill is a miniature resemblance of that 

 of our common Malabar Hornbill, B. pica. 



The first and second quills are formed similarly to those of 

 B. violaceus. 



Dimensions. 



Total length . . .. 34 inches. 

 Wing 13 



True Culmen . . . 3^^ inches. 

 Bill from gape. . . . 5-^ „ 

 „ nostril. . 5X ,, 



Tarsus 2 T V „ 



Hallux ... 1 T = F ,, i Gonys 3J% „ 



Culmenoid ridge. 5-^ ,, | 



This Hornbill would be identical with Ey ton's bicolor 

 if the three lateral rectrices and the tips of the rest of the 

 tail were white (rectricibus tertiis lateralibus caudaeque apici- 

 bus albis ;) but as this species has got the tips only of its 

 four lateral rectrices white, and the two middle tail feathers 

 wholly black, it does not agree with Eyton's description. 



Picus Melanogaster — New Species. 



A very distinctly marked species of Woodpecker from 

 Malacca, and apparently new ; the only two specimens I 

 possess are not in full plumage, their general colours being 

 as follows : Back and wings when closed red marroon with a 

 waxy gloss — europygium of a dull rusty brown, or of duller 

 and browner tint than the back ; head (as seen in my immature 

 specimen) rusty brown, with the forehead much lighter and 

 inclining to tawny brown ; the usual Picine crest not much 

 developed and longest at the nape, where the tips of the 

 feathers are of a bright crimson or almost blood red, and 

 bearing in colour and texture though not in form a some- 

 what similar resemblance to the tips of the secondary 

 quills of the Wax wiiujs ; the whole of the under parts 

 excepting the chin are dark olive rusty brown, almost 

 inclining to black, and to which colour I suspect the feathers 

 of the old birds turn ; the chin and forehead arc similar in 



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