THE 
GREAT HORNBILL, 
O R 
RHINOCEROS-BIRD. 
Generic Character. 
Bill convex, large, and bent, with a protube¬ 
rance on the upper mandible. 
No/lrils finalI. and feated behind the bale of the 
bill. 
Tongue fmall ? fharp ? 
peet formed for walking, viz. three toes forward, 
one backward. 
Specific Character, &c. 
BUCEROS with a recurved mandibular horn. 
HORNED INDIAN RAVEN, or RHINOCE¬ 
ROS-BIRD. 
Will. Ornithol. p. 127. 
The genus to which this bird belongs, is above all 
others diftinguilhed by the extraordinary flrudture of 
the beak, which at firft view has rather the appearance 
of fome enormous deformity, or irregular monftrofity, 
than of a natural produ&ion. What is the intent of 
Nature 
