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SOME ACCOUNT OF THE GROUND HORNBILL, 

 OR BROM-VOGEL {BUCORAX CAFER). 



By W. L. Sclater, M.A., F.Z.S. 



This interesting bird belongs to a genus confined to Africa, 

 and containing only two species — one found in West and North- 

 east Africa, distinguished by possessing a conspicuous and 



abruptly truncate casque on the bill at the base ; the other, our 

 present bird, which has no casque, as can be well seen by the 

 figure here given. 



