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CROWNED HORNBILL. 



Buceros coronatus. B. niger, abdomine stria utrinque occipitali 

 apiceque rectricvm albis, rostro subcristato rubro. 



Black Hornbill, with the abdomen, stripe on each side the hind- 

 head, and tip of the tail white, and shghtly-crested red bill. 



Le Calao couronne. Lemill. Cal. pi. 234. 235. 



This Monsr. Levaillant considers as a new and 

 hitherto undescribed species. It size is rather 

 smaller than that of a Magpie, and its colour 

 black, with a narrow oblique white stripe passing 

 from behind each eye to the nape, and thus sur- 

 rounding the crown of the head: the breast, bellj, 

 and vent-feathers are also white, as well as the tips 

 of three feathers on each side the tail, the four 

 middle feathers being black: the bill is bright red, 

 and furnished at the top of the upper mandible 

 with a sharp-edged, smooth, slightly-rising crest, 

 passing about two thirds towards the tip, and de- 

 clining nearly to the outline of the bill at that 

 part. 



The female differs merely in not being furnish- 

 ed with the white crown or stripe on the head; and 

 the young are of a pale brownish-black above, and 

 dull white beneath. 



This species is a native of Africa, and is common 

 about the Eastern coasts of the lower part of that 

 continent, frequenting woods, and perching on 

 lofty trees; chiefly dead ones. Monsr. Levaillant 

 has seen a flock of more than five hundred of these 



