352 Mr. Blythes Commentary 
Of B. rhinoceros he remarks —“ Individuals from Hindustan 
and Ceylon resemble those from Java, but it appears that their 
caudal band is considerably narrower” (Mus. P.-B. Buceros , 
p. 4). B. rhinoceros lunatus is also given from Hindustan and 
Ceylon. 
B. coronatus (Bodd. nec Temm.) is given from Hindustan 
and Sumatra. (Surely the Sumatran individuals—if veritably 
Sumatran—should be referred to B. convexus , which has the 
casque smaller and much broader than it is in the common spe¬ 
cies of South India and Ceylon, nearly resembling, in coloration 
as in form, that of B. albirostris .) 
B. malayanus. “ Observed in Hindustan.” 
Most assuredly no assertion regarding the fauna of “ Hindu¬ 
stan ” can be made with more implicit confidence, than that the 
list of Hornbills admitted into Dr. Jerdon’s work is a complete 
one, unless, indeed, the Toccus gingalensis (verus) should yet 
prove to inhabit Southern Malabar. Such very conspicuous 
birds could not escape the notice of British ornithologists in 
India, and moreover they would be familiarly known to the 
natives— B. rhinoceros beyond all question. The heads of Horn- 
bills are commonly enough preserved and kept when ordinary 
birds pass unnoticed. Even a single additional species would 
need very positive evidence for its acceptation; but B. rhinoceros 
and B. lunatus (which are not elsewhere found together), and B, 
malayanus in addition ! it can only be a mistake. Heads or 
even skins might have been obtained from natives, but they had 
been originally imported. 
In associating the Parrots with “ other Scansores ” Dr. Jerdon 
writes —“ I agree with Gray, Horsfield, Wallace, and indeed 
most naturalists, that their true place is among the Scansorial 
division of the Insessores .” Mr. Wallace, however, has since 
expressed an opposite opinion (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 278). Dr. 
Jerdon further adduces as one reason for thus classing the 
Psittaci “ their very great development in Australia, to the total 
exclusively to the Upper provinces of the Bengal Presidency, as distin¬ 
guished alike from Bengal and from the Dukhun or tableland of the 
peninsula, which is the southern home of the Hindus proper. 
