RED-BILLED HORNBILL. 139 
Total length 17J inches, yet the body of the 
bird is not larger than that of a magpie ; the bill, 
which is entirely red, is much curved from the 
base; the culmen is sharply carinated, and the 
margins of both mandibles destitute of serratures. 
The upper plumage is variegated with brownish- 
black and white, something in the following man- 
ner : — The sides of the head and neck are white, 
a broad black stripe being upon the top of the 
crown, which disappears a little below the nape ; 
the hack aud scapulars are blackish brown, darkest 
on the rump, and without any other white mark 
than a central stripe, w'hich extends half way down 
the hack ; the wing-covers are white, striped with 
black ; the primaries black, with a band of white 
spots on the outer edge of five of the longest : some 
of the secondaries are entirely black ; three of these 
have a white line at their edge, and the three next 
are wholly white; the tertials are blackish brown, 
and unspotted ; the tail is long and rounded ; the 
four middle feathers entirely black ; the rest broadly 
tipt with white, but the outermost is white with 
only a small black spot on- the outer web ; the ears 
are grey, and the entire under plumage pure white ; 
the feet, according to Le Vaillant, are orange brown. 
Our specimen may possibly be a young bird, as 
Le Vaillant says that such are without dentations 
to the bill ; lateral toes unequal, hinder very short. 
Total length, 17^ inches; hill, in a straight line 
from the gape, ; wings, 6f ; tail beyond, 5f ; 
base, 8 ; tarsus, 1 j’g. 
