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GINGI HORNBILl. 



birds assembled in company with crows and vul- 

 tures, and preying on the remains of slaughtered 

 elephants. The female deposits her eggs, which 

 are white, and four in number, in the hollows of 

 trees. 



GINflU HORNBILL. 



Buceros Ginginianus. B, cristatus griseus, remigibus caudaque 

 fuscis, fascia caudali nigra, rostro alhido, galea antrorsum acu- 

 minata nigra. 



Crested Grey Hornbill, with brown quill-feathers and tail, the 

 latter marked by a black bar; the bill whitish with black casque 

 acuminated in front. 



Buceros Ginginianus. B. rostro compresso incurvafo, f route ossea 

 antrorsum subulata, corpore griseo suhtvs albo, remigibus fascia- 

 que rectricum intermediarum apice nigris. Lath. ind. orn. 



he Calao de Gingi. Sonner, wy, Ind. 2. pi. 121. 



Le Calao de Gingi. Lemill. Cal.pl. 15. 



First described by Sonnerat: length two feet 

 frbm the tip of the bill to that of the tail, of which 

 the length is about ten inches: bill three inches 

 long, measured in a strait line: it is curved, and of 

 a black colour, the upper ridge of the upper man- 

 dible and the lower of the under white : the process 

 or casque follows the curvature of the upper man- 

 dible; is continued to nearly half the length of that 

 part, and terminates in a projecting horn or pro- 

 cess: the colour of the whole bird above is pale 

 cinereous, the quills and tail darker than the rest ; 

 the ismallqr quill-feathers tipped with white, and the 



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