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bird arrived at five or six months of its age, and that it does not get 

 the full pointed horn till three years at least, and in some old birds, 

 the horn almost equals the true bill in length ; the young bird at 

 first is covered with greyish down, acquiring by degrees the black 

 plumage, and the bill, whilst very young, has only the knob elevated 

 at the base, and declining downwards for more than half the length, 

 where it blends itself with the bill, and becomes part thereof. — See 

 Lev ail. pi. 12. 



B. — Buceros Malabaricus, y Ind. Orn.'i. p. 144. 



Calao de la Cote de Coromandel, Son. Voy. ii. 215. pi. 121. 



Pied Horn-bill, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 69. 



The chief difference in this from the variety A. is in the bill, 

 which is said to be white, and the appendage above it of an oval 

 shape, rounded at both ends as well as the sides ; the base is black ; 

 from thence to the middle white, forming a kind of crescent, the end 

 half black ; between the bill and eye bare and black, and under the 

 throat, from eye to eye, a bare white space ; as to plumage, it scarcely 

 seems to differ, except that the two middle tail feathers are black at 

 the base, and white for the rest of their length ; the others wholly 

 white. This variety in the tail is a little singular ; but perhaps that 

 of the bill more so ; and I suspect that the painter employed, has not 

 been quite so precise in his draught as such subjects require. 



In a bird from Bengal, in the Museum of the late Chas. Boddam, 

 Esq. the two middle tail feathers were black, the others white; the 

 quills white at the ends : it was called Cherry Deanish, or Bird of 

 Knowledge. 



In another all the tail feathers were black, the ends only white, 

 and two patches of white at the base of the under jaw. This was 

 from India, and there called Master of Rice. Is said to feed on rice 

 and fruits. 



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