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perched on the backs of our chairs. I never saw such a tame bird. 
It was quite at liberty ; and though it had the full use of its wings 
and flew about among the trees, it seldom went far away, coming 
when Mr. K called out its name, “ Punch,” and taking bread, 
plantains, and other things out of our hands. It was much pleased 
with the round buttons on my coat, and tried to tear them off—lI 
suppose, thinking them to be berries of some sort. It was of the 
black-and-white species, with white bands near the ends of the 
long tail-feathers ; irides red-brown; casque and beak dusky-white. 
At dark it flew up and roosted among some cocoa-nut trees close 
to the house.” 
BERENICORNIS COMATUS (Rafii.). The White-crested Hornbill. 
A rare bird in the South, though more common, I believe, in 
the little-explored jungles of the North of the peninsula. I obtain- 
ed two specimens from Malacca; and the following are my notes 
on a third, which I tamed and kept alive for some time, and hoped 
to bring safely to England :— 
“Singapore, 1Sth September, 1879. To-day Mr. H , Secre- 
tary to H. H. the Maharaja of Johor, sent me about the queerest- 
looking bird I ever saw; it was caught somewhere in the neigh- 
bourhood of Mount Ophir, and is, I expect, rare, or the natives 
would scarcely have thought it worth bringing so far as a present 
to Mr. H I certainly never saw a Hornbill like it: the 
enormous yellowish-white beak is without a casque; bare skin of 
face dull fleshy purple; irides pale bluish-grey ; legs and feet black ; 
head, neck, and under parts covered with hairy plumes, in colour 
white, with black bases, which form a large crest on the head, 
which the bird can erect or depress at pleasure; some of the 
plumes are of great length, and project forwards over the beak. 
In length the bird is about 86 inches; but of that the tail is nearly 
14 inches; tips of wing and tail-feathers white, as are also the ends 
of some of the wing-coverts; upper plumage black, very faintly 
glossed with green. This most extraordinary-looking creature has 
a voice as strange as its appearance. From the first glimmer of 
daylight until dark, with scarcely a minute’s cessation, it utters a 
loud monotonous ‘hoo! hoo! hoo! hoo!’ like a dog barking in the 
distance, only yaried by the most demoniacal shrieks and cries at 
