300 CHANNEL-BILL. 



GENUS IX— CHANNEL-BILL. 



JljILL large, convex, cultrated, furrowed, or channelled on the 

 sides, and bent at the tip. 



Nostrils round, naked, placed at the base. 



Tongue cartilaginous. 



Tail consisting of ten feathers. 



Toes placed two before and two behind. 



At present we are acquainted with only one species, for we rather 

 esteem the second described as a variety, than distinct. At first sight 

 it gives a strong idea of the Hornbill, and has been by some made 

 a species thereof ; but the situation of the toes gives it a claim to rank 

 as a Genus apart. 



AUSTRALASIAN CHANNEL-BILL— Pl. XXXII. 



Scythrops Novse Hollandiae, Ind.Orn.i. 141. Encycl. Britan. vol.17, pi. 440. Tern. 



Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. Ixxv. 

 Psittaceous Hornbill, Phil. Bot. Bay, pi. p. 165. 

 Anomalous Hornbill, White's Journal, pi. p. 142. 

 Australasian Channel-Bill, Shaw's Zool. viii. 37S. pi. 50. 

 Channel-Bill, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 96. pi. 124. 



.SIZE of a Crow; total length twenty-seven inches. That of the 

 bill about four ; this is very stout at the base, curving the whole of 

 its length, and the upper mandible hooked at the point; above it is 

 ridged, narrow, and channelled on the sides at the base, the nostrils 

 placed close to the setting on of the feathers ; these are round, and 

 surrounded with a naked red skin, continuing on each side between 

 them and the eye, and quite round it, but the bare parts are most 



