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CROWNED IIORNBILL. 
distinctions which would determine the question 
Yet as in all other respects the two birds agree, we 
have thought it more advisable, for the present, to 
keep them under the same specific name. 
In regard to the habits of the Senegal hud we 
know nothing, and the only specimen we have yet 
seen belongs to Mr. Warwick. That of the Cape 
of Good Hope, however, seems to be exceedingly 
common in some districts on the eastern coast, 
where M. Le Vaillant mentions having seen flocks 
of more than five hundred assembling along with 
crows and vultures, preying on the remains of 
slaughtered elephants ; at other times they are to 
be found in woods, perched on high -withered trees. 
The female differs from the male in having no white 
spots round the nape ; she deposits her eggs, which 
are white, and generally four in number, in the 
hollows of decayed trees. 
The general colour of the upper plumage is a 
peculiar glossy brownish- black, having a very slight 
greenish tinge on the quill and tail-feathers; the 
tertial and secondary quills have a very narrow 
edging of light brown, but the quills are entirely 
deep black ; the tail is the same, but all the feathers 
are more or less tipt with black. The head, neck, 
breast, and flanks, are blackish-brown, rather lighter 
than the wings, and of a uniform tint, excepting a 
number of whitish stripes behind the ears and 
round the nape, forming an irregular and ill defined 
band ; the edge of the carpus, middle of the body, 
vent, and thighs, are fulvous-white ; the bill is red. 
