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and channelled at top ; the colour of the bill in general dull yellow, 

 the edges, and a quarter of the way from the point, dull red ; 

 plumage in general full black, with a gloss of brown in some lights ; 

 beneath, from the breast, white, but the feathers over the thighs 

 are black ; the four middle tail feathers black ; the two next, on each 

 side, white ; the outmost again black, giving them the appearance 

 of five longitudinal stripes of black and white; in shape slightly 

 cuneiform, or much rounded at the end ; legs moderate in size, 

 and black. 



Said to inhabit Africa; three of them were brought from Angola: 

 one in the Cabinet of M. Temminck, at Amsterdam ; a second in the 

 possession of M. Levaillant ; and the third sold to some unknown 

 person. M. Levaillant did not meet with it in any of his journies 

 at the Cape. 



One of these, in the collection of Lord Stanley, had the bill 

 black half way from the point : the rest yellow, or pale orange, with 

 two black stripes, one in the direction of the nostrils, the other near 

 the ridge ; the two outmost feathers but one of the tail with the ends 

 white on the inner web, for an inch and a half, and on the outer for 

 an inch ; the rest of the length black. 



21— CROWNED HORN-BILL. 



Le Calao couronne, Levail. Afr. v. 117. pi. 234. 235. 

 Crowned Horn-bill, Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 35. 



THIS appears to be a new species ; in size a trifle smaller than 

 the last, but not far different in colour. The bill too, is not unlike 

 that of the Angola Horn-bill, having a crest or ridge for two-thirds 

 of the length at top, but like that, not much elevated; it is jagged on 

 the edges, colour of the whole that of vermilion ; irides Isabella 

 yellow; general colour of the plumage black, beneath from the 



