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in their habits, living on vegetable substances and insects, 
and probably also on carrion. 
Immediately beside this cage is 
The Surnomoyee House, 
named after that enlightened and philanthropic Hindu 
lady, the Maharanee Surnomoyee of Cassim Bazaar. 
The original plan of the house has been largely departed 
from, and hence its present arrangement is somewhat com¬ 
plicated, but in order to facilitate description, the divisions 
are indicated by numbers. 
The visitor should enter this house by its northern end 
where he will find 
Division No. 1 devoted to the Crown Pigeons of New 
Guinea. These are essentially ground-loving birds, and 
the chief peculiarity of their plumage is their very hand¬ 
some, laterally compressed crest. There are two species 
in this compartment, viz., Goura victories , distinguished by 
the feathers of its crest being white-tipped, and Goura 
coronata , the species that was first discovered and which 
has no white in its crest. 
Passing along the verandah two lofty compartments are 
immediately arrived at, viz. :— 
Divisions No. 2 & 3, containing Hornbills belonging to 
two distinct genera, Buceros and Hydrocissa. The Horn- 
bills are not unfrequently spoken of popularly as Toucans, 
to which, however, they are not very closely related, as 
the similarity is more apparent than real, the Toucans 
being scansorial birds confined to South America, whilst 
the Hornbills are fissirostral and inhabit Africa and 
Asia, extending to New Guinea. 
Their most characteristic feature is the enormously 
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