150 Descriptions of sotnc supposed New, or 



fore me, but in case it should not be the same species, I add 

 t\f3 following description ; head, neck, throat, breast, tip of 

 the primaries, belly and tail white — wings, back, upper and 

 under tail coverts, vent, and thigh coverts, black ; the feathers 

 on the crown of the head are stiff, loose in the web, black at 

 the base, with black shafts for half their length ; immediately 

 behind the nostril springs a tuft of loose stiff hairy feathers, 

 half the length of the bill, and some of them with black shafts 

 all their length ; on the sides of the basal portion of the lower 

 mandible, though not quite^ at the rictal angle, a few black 

 bristles occur, these are so far spurious in that they show a 

 slight tendency to run into the texture of a feather, a few 

 scattered hairs in lieu of close webs springing from the sides 

 of the shaft ; the ciliary bristles are remarkably strong and 

 black ; the throat is thinly clothed with feathers ; the crest 

 is long and full. The white colour of the feathers is purest 

 underneath the outermost ones which are of a tawny hue. 

 The black colour of the ventral feathers inclines to rusty. 

 The abdominal feathers are black for the basal half of their 

 length. 



The bill is of a dull horn colour mingled with yellowish 

 white (in the dry state), there is no decided casque rising 

 from the upper mandible, the highest part of its culmen being 

 hardly higher than the () occipital plane of the head ; the 

 upper mandible most bulged at the region of the nostrils, 

 but much compressed beyond ; the margins of the bill are 

 very plainly serrated, the culmenoid crest is rounded, and 

 not sharp, it occupies two-thirds of the true crimen, the 

 curve of which proceeds along its base in the form of a fur- 

 row or groove, which is lost in the swelling of the bill near the 

 nostrils. I regret not being able to detail the caudal structure, 

 as my specimen is somewhat damaged ; the claws are (as in 

 most of the Buceridce) deeply grooved on their under surface, 

 thus making the lateral corneous sheathing quite thin and 

 pliable. From Malacca. 



