NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Order IL Pies. 
Genus Vlil. 
PSITTACEOUS HORNBILL. 
The bird is about the lize of a crow : the total length 
two feet three inches : the bill is large, ftout at the bafe, 
much cvirved at the point, and channelled on the lides ; 
the colour pale brown, inclining to yellow near the end : 
the noftrils are quite at the bafe, and are furrounded 
with a red fkin, as is the eye alfo, on the upper part - 
the head, neck, and under parts of the body are pale 
blue-grey ; the upper parts of the body, v/ings, and 
tail, alli colour ; and moft of the feathers are tipt v/itii 
dufky black, forming bars of that colour acrofs the 
wings : the wings, when clofed, reach to near three- 
quarters of the length of the tail : the tail itfelf is long, 
and cuneiform, the two middle feathers meafuring eleven 
inches, and the outer one on each fide little more than 
feven ; a bar of black croffes the whole near the end, 
and the tips of all the feathers are white : the legs are 
iliort and fcaly, and the toes placed two forwards, and 
two backwards, as in thofe of the toucan or parrot genus : 
the colour of legs and claws black.* 
This 
* Mr. Latham, who has been kind enough to give his fentiments on this occa- 
fion, is of opinion that this bird does not ftridly belong to any of the prefent efta- 
bliflied 
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CHAP. 
XV. 
