RHINOCEROS HORNBILL. 



Buceros Rhinoceros. B. niger^ cauda apice alba, rostro JiavesceutCi 

 galea recurvata supra rubra. 



Black Hornbill, with white tipped tail, yellowish beak, and recurv- 

 ed casque red above. 



Buceros Rhinoceros. B. cornu mandibulari frontis recurvata, Liiu 

 Si/st. Nat. 



Rhinoceros Avis. Aldrov. \.p. 84. Besl. mus, t. 20. 



Horned Indian Raven, or Rhinoceros Bird. JVill. orn. p, 127- 



Edio. pi. 281. B. PL Enl g34. Nat. Misc. 2. pi. 41. 

 Rhinoceros Hornbill. Lath. syn. 

 Le Calao-Rhinoceros. Levaill. Cal.pl. 1. 2. 



This, which is perhaps the most remarkable of 

 all the species yet known, is well described and 

 figured in Monsr. Levaillant*s work on the rarer 

 birds of India and America. Monsr. Levaillant 

 however is mistaken in supposing that the bill 

 alone had hitherto made its appearance in modern 

 collections, since a very fine and complete speci- 

 men existed in the Leverian Museum, and which 

 was long ago figured in the Naturalist's Miscellany. 

 Monsr. Levaillant had the good fortune to con- 

 template this species in a living state, a specimen 

 having been brought, during his residence at the 

 Cape of Good Flope, from the island of Java in 

 the East Indies, its native residence. The general 

 size of the Rhinoceros Hornbill is that of a hen 

 turkey^ but its shape is more slender in proportion : 

 the neck is of moderate length, and the tail slightly 

 Cuneated > the colour of the whole bird is blacky 



