316 HORN-BILL. 



Inhabits India ; called at Hindustan, Dhunais.* — Sir J. Anstru- 

 ther. In a second drawing I observe, that the two middle tail 

 feathers are pale grey the whole of their length ; the crest less full, 

 and the base of the bill, as well as the appendage at the top, black. 



In another drawing of one, said to be complete, the head is 

 without any crest ; the two middle tail feathers, as in the first, are 

 marked the same as in the others; legs black. Probably all these 

 form but one Species, and the last mentioned may be the female. 



10.— PIED HORN-BILL— Pl. XXXIII. 



Buceros Malabaricus, Ind. OrnA. 143. Gm. Lin. i. 359. Nat. Misc. pl. 809. 



Calao de Malabar, Bvf. vii. 149. pl. 8. Edw. t. 281. D.— The Bill. 



Calao a Bee blanc, Levail. Am. fy Ind. i. p. 39. pl. 14. 



Unicorn Horn-bill. White-beaked Horn-bill, Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 8. 13. 



Pied Horn-bill, Gen. Syn. i. p. 349. pl. 11. 



THIS is thirty inches long, from the angles of the mouth to the 

 point of the tail. Bill five inches, and both mandibles curve down- 

 wards ; on the upper a gibbosity four inches and a half in length, 

 rounded on the top, and tending to a sharp edge in front; this appen- 

 dage passes backwards beyond the eyes, where it is blunt, the fore 

 part of it black ; which colour continues obliquely downwards and 

 backwards, quite to the part where it joins the true bill, a small part of 

 which is black also ; independent of this, the whole is white or pale 

 yellow ; the nostrils are near the base, between the appendage and 

 the bill ; the eyes in the base of the bill, surrounded with a bare, 



* Probably the same with one mentioned in the Asiatic Researches,, toI. 4. by the name 

 of Dhanesa, or Indian Buceros, which is said to feed on the Nux vomica.* It is also added, 

 that the fat is highly esteemed by the natives. Mem. my Var. B. of the Unicorn Horn-bill 

 is called Cherry Deanish. 



• Strjchnos Nux vomica, Lin. 



