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BUCÉR08 SILVESTRIS.
J A V A K EniNOCEEOS HOENBILL,
Ls Calm ä cmue cn cfm^smt, Lcvaill. Ois. d'Amér. (1801) pi. 13.
B«c™ taúUmra, Wilke» ? Ency. Lonä. (1808) vol. in. p. 479.
Or&scmt ilornbül, Shaw, Gen. Zool. (1812) vol. viii. p. 7.
Ä i ™ >i!ra.ím, VMl. Noot. Diet. m, f . N.t. (1816) ™1. iv. p. 592; Lcm. Tr.it. Oi-nitli. (1831) p. 256. >p, U.
iiucm-os iliademituf:, Dumont, Diet. Sc. Nat. (1817) vol. vi. p. 203.
Buceras niffer, Erseli u. Grub, Eney. (183-1) p. 286.
Buaw, l,mlM,, Temm. Han. Col. (1830) no. 6-1«; Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. (1850) p. 90. ip. 6; id. Corap. Vol.
Ani.oa. (1854) p. 2; Cab. & Heine, Mm. Hein. (1860) Tb. i¡, p. 175, no. 480¡ Gray, Ilaml-l. B. (1870) pt.
p. 127. sp. 7869.
Ä t e™ rhinoceros, var. d.jaanim*, Müll. & SoMcg. Verb. Gescliieil. Neiler. Ind. (1839-M) p. 22.
BMeros rhinoceros lunatus, Sebleg. Jlus. Pays-B. (1862) p. 5.
This Ijii'd, possossing a Tcry clilTorcntly sliapBd oaaquB from that ot B. rhimceroa, and being
restricted to ono island, %vhere It is tho only representatire ol the gcnns, may perhaps, with some
propriety, he regarded as a distinct spccies. It was named as long ago as 1808, in tlie
• BncyclopKdia Londinensis,' from plate 13 ot LeyaiUanfs ' Oiscani: Rares do I'AmcSriqno ct do
I'lndo," and called B. semihinaris, hnt, unfortunately, without my author's name attached; and
therefore the appellation bestowed by Vioillot {I. c.) in 181(3 is the one that has priority over all
others. Temminelc, as in many other mstaneos, disregarded the names already given to tho
bird, or was ignorant of them, and redescribed it, in tiio ' Planches Colorióos,' as B. hmalus i
and many ornithologists have adopted this appellation. It will, liowever, be obliged to give way
and become a synonym of the one given by Vioillot. Wo inow very Uttle of this bird in its
nativo haunts. It has at various times boon an inmate of different zoological gardens, but is
much more seldom seen, even in eollootions, than the specics from Sumatra and the Malayan
penmsula.
The miaU has the bül white, with the base of both maxilla and mandible blacli, edged witli
deep rod anterioriy. The casque, in tho shape of wliich the main difference between tliis specics
and B. rhinoceros lies, is straight, without any upward turn at the point, rising from the posterior
part of the eubnen just above the eyes, and extending nearly two thirds the length of tlie maxilla:
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» Tbia monjTn was inadvertently publisbed witb those ot B. rhinnaroc. It properly belongs to tbi. specics
only.
BUCEROS SYLVESTRIS.