will bo found fully worked out. After Latliam's, the next name that has priority is that of
undulalus, Shaw, which is the one nccessary to adopt for the specics.
A very curious character of this bird is its casc^uc formed of a succession of overlapping
Bcale-like ridges : these grow from the base, and push forward those in front, the lengthening of
the casque beyond a certain limit being prevented by the anterior ridges scaling off. In the young
these scale-like protuberances are larger, and thinner in substance, growing narrower and closer
by degrees.
According to Horsficld this bird is very abundant in the forests of Blambaugan, in the
eastern end of Java, whore it is called barong cUnihuruan {ts^ "jealous bird") on account of
the watchfulness displayed by the male during the period the female is immured in the hollow of
a tree performing the duties of incubation ; for, as stated by the natives, should another male
approach the nest during the husband's absence, ho leaves the unfortunate wife to perish with
hunger, as she is unable to get out of her walled prison.
!Dr. Cantor states that " tlie male has the bill (yellowish) white ; iris pale crimson ; gular
po^^ch rich gamboge yellow, with two transverse black bars ; feet blackish. And the female has
the iris narrow, golden round the pupil, the rest golden Vandyke ; eyelids brick-colour ; pouch
dirty azure, with two transverse black bars; feet blackish grey. The young male has the iris
mother-of-pearl colour; bill yellow at the point, and bluish green at the base ; space around the
eyes, and pouch, yellowy with the transverse black bars indistinct; feet bluish black."
"This llornbill," says Jerdon, "has been killed in JTorth Caehar by Major Godwin-Austen.
It has not hitherto been recorded from further north than Arakan. He gives the dimensions as
follows ;—length 3 feet 2 inches ; wing 18,} inches ; extent 5 feet 2 inches ; tail 12 inches ; bill
CJ inches ; depth of bill 3 inches."
This measurement gives the length of the species greater than I have been able to find in the
dried skins ; and it seems to me that the specimen described above must have been unusually
lai-gc, although, with the exception of the length, it docs not differ much from the average.
Male.—Bill 'O'ith a roughened easquc-like protuberance projecting from the base of the
culnien for nearly half its length, in the form of large scales, indented by several transverse
grooves; base of maxilla and mandible transversely grooved; bill white, with its base deep
chestnut-red, this being more extensive on the mandible, where it reaches on the gonys nearly half
its length. The scaly protuberance on the culmen also chestnut, becoming yellowish towards its
anterior terminus. Bare skin around the eye pinkish ; that of the throat rich yellow, with a
conspicuotis broken ring of dark blue on its lower part. Sides of the head yellowish ; lower portion
of neck to the breast pure wliite. Top of head and occiput dark chestnut. Back of neck and
entire plumage of the body black, with green reflections. Tail pure white. Total length 29-}
inches ; wing 18^ ; tail 13 ; bill (i-^, height at base 3 ; tarsus 2;}.
Female.—The naked skiu of throat and around the eyes bright blue. Entire plumage
black, Tail white. Total length 28 inches, wing IG}, tail 11, bill 6 i tarsus 2.