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P I C A R I M. 
Fam. BU CEROTIDiE. 
Bill very large, curved from the base, with or without a casque on the upper mandible. 
Nostrils small, pierced in the bill, without a membrane, at the junction of the casque with the 
upper mandible or near the ridge. Wings short. Tail long, of ten feathers. Tarsus short. 
Feet syndactyle ; three toes in front. 
Tongue short and heart-shaped. Sternum wider at the posterior edge than in front, and 
with a shallow emargination on each side. 
Genus ANTHRACOCEROS. 
Bill enormous, curved from the base to the tip ; the upper mandible surmounted by a long, 
high, and sharp casque, its anterior edge projecting forward. Nostrils narrow, situated at the 
base of the casque ; orbital and gular skin nude. Wings short and rounded, the 1st three quills 
evenly graduated; the 1st short and the 5th and 6th the longest; tertials reaching beyond the 
primaries. Tail very long, of ten feathers. Legs and feet stout, covered with broad, prominent, 
transverse scales. Tarsus longer than the middle toe ; toes syndactyle, the outer connected with 
the middle as far as the last joint ; sole very broad, claws short and stout. 
ANTHRACOCEROS CORO NAT US. 
(THE CROWNED HORNBILL.) 
Buceros coronatus, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 53 (1783) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1860, p. 352. 
Buceros violaceus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 19 (1811); Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1849, p. 803; 
Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 126 (1852). 
Buceros malalaricus, Tickell, J. A. S. B. 1853, ii. p. 579 ; Jerdon, Cat. B. S. India, Madr. 
Journ. 1840, xi. p. 38 ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 260. 
Anthracoceros coronata, Reich. Syst. Av. pi. 49 (1849). 
Hydrocissa coronata, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 588 (1856) ; Cab. et 
Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 170 (1860) ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 245 (1862) ; Holdsworth, 
P. Z. S. 1872, p. 425 ; Ball, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 387. 
Anthracoceros coronatus, Elliot, Mon. Bucerotidse, pt. iv. (1877). 
The Large Eornbill, Kelaart; The Malabar Pied HornbiU, Jerdon ; Toucan, Double-billed 
Bird, Europeans in Ceylon ; Dancliuri , Hind. ; Bagma-dunes, Bengal. ; Wayera, 
Mahrattas; Peshta-ganda, Gonds; Suliman murghi, lit. “ Solomon’s Fowl,” Musselmen 
in South India ; Kuchla-kha in Goomsoor (J erdon). 
Porowa kdendetta, lit. “ Axe Hornbill ” (from the shape of the bill), Sinhalese ; Atta- 
kcendetta, ajgud Layard ; Errana-chundoo-kuruvi, Ceylonese Tamils, lit. “ double- 
billed bird ” ( apud Layard). 
