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from the tip ; it is distinguished by having very deep 

 grooves, following the contour of the beak ; and 

 reaching nearly to the tip of the upper mandibles, 

 the tip itself and lower mandible being smooth : the 

 plumage in general is of a sombre cast ; the head is 

 of a dull black ; as are also the neck and under parts : 

 the back, wings, and tail are of a shining black, with 

 bronzed-green reflections : the wings reach to the 

 rump : the tail is equal : the legs black : and the 

 beak brown, with its tip whitish. 



Sp. 16, Bu. fasciatus. Shaxu, v. viii. p. 34. — Angola. 



Sp. 1 7. Bu. coronatus. Shaw, v. viii. p. 35. Swain. Zool. Illust. 



V. iii. pi. 178. — Southern Africa. 

 Sp. 18. Bu. gingalensis. Shaw, v. viii,^. 37. — Ceylon. 

 Sp. 19. Bu. nasutus. Lath. Shaw, v. viii. p. 30. — Africa. 

 Sp. 20. Bu. erythrorhynchos. Briss.pl. 46. 2. — Bu. nasutus. 



{mr. Red-billed Horn-bill.) Shaw, v. viii. p. 20.~Africa. 



Sp. 21. Bu. buccinator. Temm. PI. Col. 284. 



Bu. collo, pectore, dor so, alis, cauddque nigris, mridi-ceneo niten- 



tibus; corpore infra apicihusque remigium secundariorum rectri' 



ciumque lateraliorum albis. 

 Hornbill with the neck, breast, back, wings, and tail black, glossed 



with bronzed-green ; the body beneath and tips of the secondary 



quills and lateral tail-feathers white. 



Inhabits Southern Africa. Allied to the imme- 

 diately preceding species : its length is about two 

 feet : the casque on the beak is large, its edges are 

 curved inwards ; it is dilated at the tip, and is slightly 

 curved; its hinder part is elevated into a kind of 

 hood, and is detached from the base of the beak, and 

 its point is much compressed, and is prolonged into 

 a truncated vertical horn ; its surface is much wrin- 



