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colour o f it black, with a crefcent o f white at the back p a r t: irides
red brown : between the bill and eye bare and b la ck : under the
throat, from eye to eye, a bare white fpace: the head, neck, and
upper parts o f the body, are b la ck: on the coverts two white feathers
: the fecond quills black, the end half white j greater quills
black : two middle tail feathers black at the bafe, and white the
reft of their length; the others entirely white: breaft, belly,
thighs, and vent, white : legs black.
' This feems to differ both from my former defcription and that
of Buffott following it, though I efteem them the farpe : but the
variation of the tail feathers.is Angular. I have likewife obferved a
further variety, in the mufeum of the late Mr. Boddam, two feet fix
inches in length, wherein the two middle tail feathers were black,
and all the others white; the quills white only at the tips. Mr.
Boddam's bird came from Bengal, where it is called Cherry deanijh,
or Bird of Knowledge.
I have lately feen one o f thefe among fome drawings from India,
wherein all the tail feathers were black, with the ends white;
and two large patches of white, the one larger than the other, at
the bale of the under jaw. It is faid to feed on rice and fruits:
hence called the Mafter of Rice.
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WREATHED H,
Wreathed Hornbill, Gen. Syn. i. p. 358. N* 12.— Damp, Fey. vol. iii. pt. 2.
p. 165. pi. 3.
J ~ )A M P IE R met with this bird at the illand of Ceram and New
Guinea, and defcribes it nearly in the following words: “ One
“ o f my mailer’s mates killed two fowls as big as Crows, of a
*c black colour, excepting that the tails were all white: their
“ necks
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" necks were pretty long, one of which was of a faffron-colour,
“ the other black : they had very large bills, much like a ram’s
“ horn : their legs were ftrong and Ihort, and their claws like a
<< pigeon’s : their wings of an ordinary length; yet they make a
“ great noife when they fly, which they do heavily. They feed
“ on berries, and perch on the higheft trees. Their flelh is
“ fweet.”
In a defcription o f the fame, with which I was favoured by
Mr. Pennant, I find that the'colour of the bill is yellowilh, with a
black fpot at the bafe of the lower mandible : beyond the eye a
naked blueilh Ikin : crown black : head, neck, back, and coverts
o f the wings, dark grey, clouded with black: primaries black,
their ends white: tail black, outmoft feather on each fide white on
the upper h a lf: legs ftrong, fhort, and blueilh.
This was met with in the illand of Ceylon, and fuppofed to be a
young bird.
I have met with the fegments o f the appendage o f the bill, from
four to feven in number, in different fpecimens, which may lead
one to think that the number increafes with the age of the bird.
Damper does not fay the number on the bill in his figure, but I
think feven may be counted; and if fo, perhaps it was an adult
bird. That defcribed by Mr. Pennant had only five fegments.
Calao de Gingi, Son. Voy> Ind. ii. p. 214. pi. 121.
T E N G T H two feet. The bill long and b ent; on the top, as
common in this genus, an appendage which points forward,
and is lharp at the end, appearing not unlike a fmaller bill placed
on the top of a larger j edges o f the mandibles jagged ; the colour
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GINGI H.
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