HORN-BILL. 319 



inches high from the bill, and occupies more than half the length ; 

 it is flat on the sides, where it has two shallow channels ; the fore 

 part divided by a strait line, the hinder flat, and covered with a 

 black skin; on the fore part the colour is black, half way from the 

 middle, to near the point; the base of both mandibles, as well as 

 the appendage, and the gape under the eye, is red, and on the under 

 are two alternate red and black bands ; independent of these, the 

 whole is yellowish, and the edges serrated ; the eyes are large, 

 brown, and placed in a naked black space; the plumage of the 

 head, neck, and upper parts purplish black, varying to green in 

 some lights ; under the wings black and white mixed ; belly, thighs, 

 vent, ends of the greater quills, and the three outer tail feathers 

 white ; the four middle ones like the back, and a little longer than 

 the others; legs and claws black. 



Inhabits Ceylon, and the whole Coast of Coromandel. One 

 brought to the Cape of Good Hope, was kept tame in a menagerie, 

 and observed to be affable towards the keeper, but so ferocious to 

 the rest of the birds in the aviary, as to completely keep them in 

 awe, however much larger than himself; yet with all this audacity, 

 he would not suffer any quarrels among others, and always interfered 

 between the combatants, ending the conflict by beating both parties. 

 He was fed indiscriminately with flesh, raw or cooked, and was 

 equally fond of boiled grain. 



13.— ABYSSINIAN HORN-BILL. 



Buceros Abyssinicus, Ind. Orn. i. 143. Id. Sup. xxiii. Gm. Lin. i. 358. Meyer. Ueb. 



der Neuest. Zool. Entd. s. 117. 

 Calao d'Abyssinie, Buf. vii. 155. PL enl. 779. 



Erkoom Abba Gumba, Bruce' s Abyss, iii. p. 102. Id. App. pi. x. t. p. 169. 

 Le Calao caroncule, Levail. Afr. 230. 231. 232. No. 5: p. 109. 

 Abyssinian Horn-bill, Gen. Syn. i. 347. Id. Sup. ii. p. 99. Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 21. 



THIS is not much inferior to a Turkey in size, and in length 

 three feet two inches. The bill black, nine inches long, slightly 



