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-t i e Calao d'Afrique, Brifi. cm. Iv. p. 570. N° 3.
AFRICAN Le Brae, on Calao d’Afrique, Buf. oif. vii. p. 154*
Trompette de Brae, ou l’Oifeau trompette, Labat. A fr . oee. iv. p. 160.1 Si.
figure imperfect.
Rhinoceros avis fecunda varietas, Will, om. pi. 17.— Muf. Befi, t. 9. N°7.
Desckiptjok. ' I 'H I S bird is faid by L a ia t to be o f the fize o f a Turkey: the
colour o f the plumage wholly black. The bill and head,
meafured together, were equal to eighteen inches : the figure of
the bill not unlike our third fpecies ; but the horny appendage on
the top o f the upper mandible is almoft ftrait at the end, or at
leaft turns up but very little, and ends almoft in a point; the colour
is partly red, partly yellow; the edges o f both mandibles
black, and the bafe o f both o f the fame colour. Neither Brijfon
nor Buffon add any thing to this account o f L a ia t, neither of
them having, I fuppofe, met with the bird.
A fpecimen o f this bird is in the Leyden Mufeutn, o f which there
is a coloured -print * in poffeflion o f Sir A . Lever, which informs
us, that the general colour is black: the hind head fomewhat
crefted: the belly and vent white: the tail near one foot in
length, the feathers o f which are black, with white tips.
.both as to fize and feathers, that one might very eafily miftake them. I killed
two with the fame fltot, one male, the other female. They had both a kind of
black hollow helmet on the head, of the fame bulk and figure as that of the
Cafoar : upon their neck they had along plate, like a very bright vellum, which
was red in the male, and blue in the female.” He fays, that the Negroes give
it the name of Guinar, and efteem it as a Marabou, or facred animal, and liken
it to the Gallinazo; but that is the Carrion Vulture. See Adanf. Voy, to Senegal,
p. 309. Eng. Edit.
* It is called in the print Calao des Indes.
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