314 HORTV-BiLL. 



C. — Among my collection of drawings is one not greatly differing 

 in the bill from the last described, but the appendage on the top, 

 although oval in shape, is wholly black, not divided in the middle 

 by a white crescent. The whole plumage above pale grey brown, 

 beneath from the chin white ; behind the eye a large dusky patch ; 

 quills dusky, with brown ends, and some few tipped with white ; 

 tail long, and rounded at the end, in colour like the upper parts of 

 the body, and the wings scarcely reach to the base of it ; legs dusky. 

 I am at a loss to conjecture concerning this, further than to suppose 

 it may be allied to the last, considering how much these birds vary 

 from the difference of sex or age. 



I observed too, among the drawings of Gen. Davies, one of these, 

 in which the appendage on the top of the bill was round on the fore 

 part, but ending in a projecting point behind. 



A drawing of this was taken from one in a Natural History 

 Museum, at Bath. 



8— GINGI HORN-BILL, 



Buceros Ginginianus, Ind. Orn.i. 146. 



Calao de Gingi, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 214. pi. 121. Levail. Ois. Am. Sf Ind. i. p. 43. pi. 15. 



Gingi Horn-bill, Gen. Syn.Sup. p. 71. 13. Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 36. 



THIS is two feet in length, the bill between three and four inches 

 long, and furnished with a helmet on the top, for about two-thirds of 

 its length ; this appendage points forward, and is sharp at the end, 

 appearing not unlike a smaller bill on the top of the larger ; the 

 edges of both mandibles jagged ; the colour of the bill for the most 

 part, and of the helmet wholly, is black, but the top of the upper 

 mandible, from the base of the helmet to the end, is white ; and the 

 whole of the under half of the lower of the same colour ; the eyelids, 

 as in others, have some long hairs ; and the feathers of the hind 

 head elongated into a sort of crest ; the colour of the plumage on the 



