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TOCKUS HEMPRICHII
TOCKUS IIEMPRICIllL
J I E M P i U C H ' S HOßNBILL.
Buceros hemprichii, Elirenb. Symb. Pliys, Av. (1828) fol. a a; Fiusch, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1869) vol, vii. p. 31/ ;
Dresser & Blnnf. Ibis (1874) p. 338.
Buceros limbatus, Rüpp. Taun. Abyss. (1835) vol. i. p. 5, tab. 2. fig. 1; (r. R. Gray, (reu. Birds (181'9) vol. ii.
p. 400. sp. 33 ; Schleg. Mus. Pays-B. (18Ö2) p. 13 ; Von lleugl. Joui-ii. für Omith. (1804) p. 270 ; Knsch,
Trans. Zool. Soc, (1869) vol. vü. p. 279; Giebel, Thcs, Oniitli. (1872) p. 500.
Tockus limbalus, Rüpp. Syst. Ucbers. Vög. N.O.-Afr. (1845) p. 79. sp. 325; Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. (1850) p. 92.
sp. 11; Horsf. & :Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.-Ind. Co. (1856-8) vol. ii. p. 596. sp. 879.
Grammicus limbatus, Bon. Consp. Vol. Anisod. (1854) p. 3.
Lophoceros limbatus, Cab. Mus, Hein. (1859-60) p. 1G8. sp. 6 (note).
Toccus hemprichii, Blanf. Geol. & Zool, Abyss. (1870) p. 326; Salvad, Cat. Uccelli Mare Rosso e dei Bogos, p. 54
(417).
IIAR. Abyssinia, Senafe (JISSSE).
This species was first described by Ekrenberg {I. c.) as Buceros hemprichii. This has been
referred to the {Lophoceros) nasutus by authors; but Messrs. Presser and Blanford, having
examined the type in the Berlin lluscam, stated in ' The Ibis,' 187 i , that it was the same as
the B. limbalus, ßüppell, described some seven years afterwards. Of course this last will have to
become a synonym of the older name. It may be as well to remark that Mr. Blanford, in his
'Geology andZoology of Abyssinia' (1870), had already stated that tliis species was the ß. hemprichi
of Ehrenberg. The latter's type was obtained i n Abyssinia. It is a line bird, rather large for the
genus compared with tlie other members, and has not been met with, so far as I am aware,
beyond the borders of Abyssinia, Cabanis and Heine, in their list of the Bacerotidaj in the
Museum Ileineanum, include the present species in Lophoceros-, but as it has not like the
members of that genus an elevated casq^ue, it should not be placed with them.
Bill rather long, curved, compressed laterally, deep red. Head, neck, upper part of breast
and back blackish brown. "Wings black, margined with white. Underparts pure white. Tail
blackish brown, the two lateral reetriees next to the outermost ones pure white. Iris brown.
Total length 22 inches, wing 12, tail 11^, bill 5^.
The naked space on the sides of the throat, according to Kotli's notes in Ilorsiield and
Moore's Catalogue of Birds, is black in the male and yellow in the female. With this exception
both sexes are alike.