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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURxMAH. 
but Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured a young bird at Tonghoo. Mr. 
Blyth gives it from Arrakan^ and Mr. Theobald noticed it at Sandoway. 
To the north it has been met with in Chiltagong^ Cachar_,the hill-tracts 
of Eastern Bengal and in Assam. 
On the south it ranges down the Malay peninsula_, and it occurs in 
Sumatra^ Java and Borneo; and Dr. Tiraud states that it is found in 
Cochin China. 
The habits of this Hornbill do not present any peculiarities. Mr. 
Theobald in Arrakan and Capt. Bingham in Tenasserim found the eggs in 
March. 
Other species of this genus are R. plicatus, from New Guinea and the 
further islands, and R. narcondami, from the Nicobar Islands. 
Genus ANORRHINUS, Reich. 
481. ANOEEHINUS COMATUS. 
THE LONG-CRESTED HORNBILL. 
Buceros ccmatus, Baffi. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 339. Anorrhinus comatus, 
Elliot, Mon. Bucer. pi. xxxix. Berenicornis comatus, Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. 
p. 106 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 86. 
Description. — Male. The head, a long and ample crest covering the 
whole crown and nape, the neck, breast, upper abdomen, tail and the tips 
of all the primaries and secondaries except the first two primaries white ; 
remainder of the plumage black, with a green gloss on the wings and 
scapulars. 
l^he female has the forehead, crown, nape, crest, tail and the tips of the 
primaries and secondaries white ; the feathers of the head with black 
shafts ; remainder of the plumage black, with a green gloss on the wings 
and scapulars. 
The legs, feet and claws are black, apparently at all ages ; the irides in 
the adults are wax-yellow, but oil-yellow in the younger birds. In the 
old adults the facial skin and the base of the lower mandible are a deep 
but rather dull blue, in somewhat younger birds it is a paler blue, in the 
next stage pink tinged with blue, and in the youngest bird pink. In the 
oldest adult the bill is perfectly black, except the ridge of the casque and 
a slight mottling of a pale dull green at the bases of both mandibles. In 
the youngest birds almost the whole of both mandibles is of this dull 
horny green- colour, only on the upper mandible there is a large patch of 
