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CATALOGUE. 
a. Himalaya. From Griffith's Collection. 
h. N. India. From Dr. Falconer's Collection. 
C. D. Madras. From Wight's Collection. 
e. Drawing. From Heyne's Collection. 
" Inhabits India generally (nec, Assam) ; never on the eastern 
side of the Bay of Bengal. In the Midnapore jungles, I observed it 
constantly in pairs, instead of in small flocks like H. albirostris.'' — 
(Blyth.) .... 
Eev. T. Phillips, in his MS. Notes, states, that " this is very shy, 
especially towards roosting-time. A specimen killed at Hasanpur, 
on the Ganges, received two shots, and died after repeated attempts 
to strangle it. It uttered a shrill sound, like kik, while on the tree, 
and when wounded. In its belly was found a hard lump, the size of 
a pigeon's egg, which, on being cut open, was found filled with the 
fruit of the Peepul and other trees." 
" This bird is spread all over the Peninsula, frequenting not only 
jungles, but also, not unfrequently, large groves of trees and avenues 
(in the more wooded parts of the open country). It is generally 
seen in small parties, or sometimes single. I have generally found 
fruit in the stomach of this bird ; but on one occasion I found some 
large insects, chiefly Mantides." — (Jerdon.) 
Lieutenant Hardy remarks : " I was out shooting one day beyond 
Pahlunpore, when a slate-coloured bird, about the size and figure of 
a Magpie, flew past me. My beaters marked it down on a tree, 
where I shot it. They then told me that it was very valuable to 
them, that they would chop up the flesh, pickle and preserve it in a 
bottle, and sell it as a medicine to alleviate the pangs of child-birth, 
for which it was highly prized."— (P. Z. S. 1850, p. 275.) 
Genus Rhyticeiios, Beichenhach^ St^st Av. (1849). 
Calao, Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 90 (1849). 
Cassidix, Bonap. (1849). 
882. RHYTICEROS PLICATU8, Latham Sp. 
Buceros plicatus, ZatTi., Ind. Orn. I. p. 146 (1790) ; 
Gen. Hist. ofB. II. p. 323, t. 34. {Le Vaill, Ois. 
d'Afr.t.2^9^, SJiaw, Zool.YUl.p.^^. Temm., 
Text, de Bl. Col. sp. 8. G. B. Gray, Gen. of B. 
II. p. 399. Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. App. 
p. 319. 
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