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DESCRIPTION 



OF THE 



BUCEROS HOMRAI OF THE HIMALAYA. 



By B. H. HODGSON, Esq. 



ACTING RESIDENT AT KATHMANDU. 



Order, Insessores. Tribe, Conijiostres. Family, Buceridce. 

 Genus, Buceros. Species new. 



The Homrai Buceros. B. Homnn. (Mihi.) Habitat, The Lesser hills 

 overlooking the plains of India, from the Ganges to the Brahmaputr. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Largest, black, Buceros, luillt while tail and neck ; the wings doubly, and 



the tail singly barred. 



The Homrai Buceros (so called by Parbatiahs of Nepal,) is the largest 

 species yet discovered of this singular Genus, measuring four feet and a 

 half from the tip of tiie bill to the end of the tail, and six feet in expanse 

 of wings; and, as all the peculiarities of the Genus are fnlly developed in 

 this species, their exhibition on so lariio a scale presents a spectacle 

 calculated to arrest the attention of the most incurious observer of nature. 



The Homrai tenants the \\h()h; of tlie lower ranges of liills which lie 

 contiguous to the plains, from llarhlirar, on ihc west, lo .i.^dm on the cast; 



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