HORN-BILL. 331 



24.— YELLOW-BILLED HORN-BILL. 



SIZE of a Magpie. Bill yellow, curved, and smooth above; 

 edges serrated, the inner black ; plumage in general grey ; on the 

 fore part of the neck a wattle or caruncle ; wing coverts marked with 

 white spots ; under parts of the body white, but on the fore part of 

 the neck the white feathers are dusky or black, giving a striped 

 appearance ; tail cuneiform, the four middle feathers black, the rest 

 barred black and white alternate, three bars of each ; quills twenty- 

 one in number, three of them white at the ends, legs black. 



One, supposed to be a young bird, had a smaller bill, and more 

 inclined to orange ; legs in both black. 



This was brought from Abyssinia, by Mr. Salt ; whether it is 

 distinct, or allied to the Red-billed Species, does not seem to be 

 certain. 



25— WHITE HORN-BILL. 



Buceros albus, Ind. Orn. i. 146. Gm. Lin. i. 361. 



White Toucan, Hawkesw. Voy. i. 123. 



White Horn-bill, Gen. Syn. i. 357. Skate's Zool. viii. p. 29. 



THIS is said to be of the size of a Goose, wholly as white as 

 snow, except the bill and legs, which are black ; the beak curved, 

 and of so great a length and thickness, that it was not easy to conceive 

 how the muscles of the neck, which was one foot long, and as small 

 as that of a Crane, could support it. 



This bird was caught between the Island of Tinian, and Pulo- 

 timoen, and kept alive four months on board, fed with biscuit, after 

 which it died. 



Although in the description it is called a Toucan, it is more 

 probably a Horn-bill, as none of the Toucan Genus are known to 

 exist, except in South America. 



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