5 26 BIRDS. PIES. Hornbill. 



5$5 15. Grey Hornbill. — Buceros gri/ms. 



The protuberance is floping at its fore part and abrupt behind j the body is grey. 

 Lath. ind. orn. i. 147. n. 15. Syn. flip. 72. 



Inhabits New-holland.— ■ The crown of the head is black; the bill is yellow, its bafe having a black 

 fpot ; at the corner of each eye is a tuft of briftles, and behind each eye a naked blue fpot; the wing 

 coverts are variegated with black ; the wing quills have white tips. 



16. Green-winged Hornbill. — Buceros chloropterus. 

 The protuberance is abrupt j the body is black, with greenifh wings. 



B. viridis. Lath. ind. orn. i. 147. n. 16 — Green-winged Hornbill. Lath. fyn. fup. 73. 



Its place uncertain. — The bill is yellowifh, having a naked bluifli white fpot at the bafe of the un- 

 der mandible ; the outer tail quills, the bafes of the wing quills, and the belly, are white ; the le<*s 

 and feet are bluifli. Perhaps this might be confidered as. a variety of the preceding fpecies. 



X. BEEF-EATER.— 8. BU PH J C J. 4 8\ 



The bill is ftrong, thick, ftraight, and fomewhan fquared; the 

 mandibles being protuberant, chiefly at the fides; the feet 

 are formed for walking. 



The Latin name of this genus-, as well as its Englifh and French appellations, is derived from its 

 cuftom of picking holes in the backs of cattle on purpofe to get at the larvae of infects of the Gad-fly 

 kind which are there depofited, 



5°7 1* African Beef- eater.— 1. Buphaga africana. 1. 



Only this fpecies hitherto known. 



B. africana. BrifT. av. iy. 457. n. 1. t. 42, f. 2. — Pic-boeuf. Buff. oif. iii.. 1 75^ t. 14. PI. enl-n. 

 293. — African Beef-eater. Lath., fyn. i. 359. n. 1. t. 12.- 



Inhabits Africa, near the Senegal. — Is about the fize of the Crefted Lark, meafuring eight inches 

 and a half long : The body is brown-grey above, with a yellowifh rump, the under parts being like- 

 wife yellowifh ; the bill, which is not quite an inch long, is fometimes yellowifh with a red tip, and. 

 fometimes entirely black ; the tail is wedge-like, having twelve brown-grey quills which are narrow 

 at the ends, the outer quills on each fide being reddifh on their inner webs ; the legs and feet> with 

 the claws, are brown., 



XI. AN I.— 9. CR TO P II AG A. 49. 



The bill is compreiled laterally, protuberantly ridged on the 



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