332 HORN-BILL. 



26.— CEYLON HORN-BILL. 



Le Calao-Gingala, Levail. Am. et Ind. t. 65. pi. 23. 

 Gingala Horn-bill, Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 37. 



THIS is said not to exceed a Magpie in size, but the bill is 

 strong, and large in proportion, — three inches long, and one inch 

 and a half deep at the base, at least ; the edges of the mandibles 

 dentated ; nostrils half concealed in the feathers ; eyelids furnished 

 with hairs; the colour of the bill half brown, half white, divided 

 longitudinally in both mandibles, so as to appear alternately striped 

 brown and white ; the feathers of the hindhead elongated ; the 

 crown, nape, and all the upper parts of the bird are dusky brown, 

 with a blue-grey tinge ; wings of this last colour, the feathers 

 margined at the ends with black, appearing like scales ; under wing 

 coverts, and inner webs of the great quills, white ; the face, throat, 

 and fore part of the neck, as far as the breast, greyish white ; belly 

 the same, but deeper, verging to cinereous-grey ; under tail coverts, 

 and lower part of the thighs, chestnut brown; the tail, which is 

 longer than the body, is cuneiform, and the feathers pointed at the 

 ends ; the two middle ones the colour of the wings, the others the 

 same, with white ends, and the outmost entirely white on the 

 outer web ; legs brown. 



Inhabits Ceylon ; one specimen was killed in the woods near 

 Colombo. — Manners unknown. 



27— CRIMSON HORN-BILL. 



Buceros ruber, Ind. Orn. Sup. xxiii. 



Crimson Horn-bill, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 100. Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 39. pi. 2. 



SIZE uncertain. The bill is longer from the gape to the tip, 

 than backwards to the hindhead ; the colour dusky, except at the 



