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17.— NEW-HOLLAND HORN-BILL. 



Buceros Orientalis, Ind. Orn. i. 147. 



New-Holland Horn-bill, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 72. Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 41. 



LESS than a Jay. Bill convex, carinated, very gibbous at the 

 base, and covered with a naked skin ; nostrils small, pervious, placed 

 one-third from the base, about which are several short bristles ; region 

 of the ears naked, wrinkled, cinereous; plumage in general dusky 

 above, and white beneath ; shafts of the wing and tail feathers white 

 beneath ; toes divided to the bottom. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — Communicated by Mr. Pennant. The 

 ends of the quills and tail had been clipped with scissars, it therefore 

 could not be ascertained of what colour they were. 



18 — RIDGED HORN-BILL. 



SIZE uncertain. Bill large, stout, and yellowish ; the upper 

 mandible elevated into a high ridge, blunt, and rounded behind, 

 where it finishes over the eyes ; from thence it is carinated, and 

 declining in an arch to the point ; diameter of the bill at the thickest 

 part full three-fifths of the length of the whole ; this elevated portion 

 differs from that seen in others, as it does not appear as an appendage, 

 but forming one piece with the upper mandible, having only a dusky 

 line running from the eye on each side, one-third on the bill ; the 

 the head, neck, back, and wings are black, but the ends of the 

 prime quills, all the under parts from the breast, and the whole of 

 the tail are white, the last cuneiform ; legs black. 



Described from a drawing in the collection of General Davies, 

 taken from a specimen brought from some part of India. In the 



