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HORN-BILL. 



colour of the plumage it does not greatly differ from some of the 

 preceding, but the singular shape of the bill prevents our placing it 

 otherwise than as a distinct species. 



19— NARAKARAC HORN-BILL. 



SIZE and length uncertain. Bill pale blue and black, with a 

 notch near the tip; the upper mandible formed as in the Ridged 

 Species, being elevated into a high ridge, and finishing over the 

 eyes ; head, neck, and under parts black ; back, lesser wing coverts, 

 and the two middle tail feathers fine ferruginous ; the other feathers 

 of the tail lead-colour; quills deep brown ; legs formed as in others 

 of the Genus, and black-brown. 



Inhabits Madagascar, and is called there by the Muljacks, 

 Narakarac. — Mr. Thompson. 



20 —ANGOLA HORN-BILL. 



Le Calao longibande, Levail. Afr.v. p. 115. pi. 233. 

 Striped-tailed Horn-bill, Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 34. 



THIS is about the size of a Magpie ; length twenty-one inches. 

 Bill, from the point to the gape, three inches and a half; it is stout 

 at the base, curved much in the same manner as in many others of 

 the Genus, and dentated on the edges ; on the top runs a ridge, 

 about three-fourths of the length from the base, but little elevated 

 from the bill, not more than a quarter of an inch, and for some part 

 of the length has the appearance of being separated ; round the eye 

 and under the chin bare, the upper eye-lid furnished with twelve or 

 fourteen cartilaginous substances, like hairs, a quarter of an inch long, 



