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Show 326 AVES. 1 • higher and the tail not so short. They feed on The tarsus a so lS ' b 'ld the ground.( 1) . :flies and UI· oten the hi. story o f this order with the most smgular W. e termina a genus w1 u.c h has not as much resemb.l ance to the of 1ts genera, e have to each other, and one which may very other Syndactylre as~ .y articular family. It is the properly be made to oi m a p BucERos, Lin. b' d f Africa and India, whose enormous . The Hornbills are larged I:ths oxcrescences which sometimes equal db k is studde Wl e dentate ea · f d h' ch are always of considerable ex· in size the beak. itsel ' an hw I very remarkable, and allies them b This renders t em . b' tent a ove. h t'Ime their carnage and ha 1ts T while at t e same ' to the oucans, ' C d their feet to the Bee·eaters . t them to the rows, an b k approxima e h f these excrescences on the ea K. fishers The s ape 0 · · and the mg · . ng bird they are not even vm· varies with age, and m thlel verlyl ylou The sternum is slightly emar· . . . enera y ce u ar. ble; the mte.nor lS g . d The tongue is small and placed at gina ted behmd, on both s~ esi· all sorts of food, eat soft fruits, the bottom of the t~lroat; t e.; lve o: do not even despise carrion.(2) hunt mice, small birds, reptl es, an d . 'd' Enl 585 1 and 2, and Vieill. Gal. 124;-T. Cf.e7"Ulew, Enl (1) 7b us vtrt u, . ' ' 783, 1. 1 d among the Todies, true :Muscipetlll, WJtb Authors have very improperly P ace f h as the Todtts regim, EnL an emarginated beak and the external toe relel, Ssu~ VI iii 2·-the two Pu· "4 le oce'Tiltalus Pa · pte., ' ' ' Tti 289;-paradisreus,Ib.,2-> ;:- uc r Td' t t sandnasutusofShaw,or fD ts whtch are the o . ros ra u 6 TYRliiNCI o esmare ' . . ·ves the first, Gal. 12 , lfl[atyrhynchos and macrorltynclws, Gm. Vtetll., ght' Enl 934 Vaill. CaU~ r C:ES Buc r tnoceros, · ' . (2) HonNBlLLB WITU :EXCR:ESC:EN • • b m re variety from age; ntgtl'• 1 and 2· B. africanus, Vaill., pl. 17, f. 2, may eda e. n of the same;-mOIIO-va. ill is according to Tern. is a badly preserve specunec 1 210·-malabariet~~, ., ' 12 'dix Temm. o · ' ceros Sh. Enl. 873; Vaill. 9, 10, 11, ;-casst , . t T Col '>84·-gingianm, ' lb' t · Sh Va'll Col 14·-bucctna or, · ·"' ' aliU, Lath. VI, ii, or a tros ns, . ; t . .' '. ·n 7 the adult female; cav Sonn. Voy. II, pl. cxxi; Vaill., 15;-btcorms, Vat . ' ltered specimensofthe Id. 4, is the male at a mt·( ldl e age. The pl. 3 .a nd 5 are 8a3 the adult;-vto. 1...,.,.1.1~.. SCANSORilE. 327 ORDER III. SCANSORIJE. This order is composed of those birds whose external toe is directed backwards like the thumb, by which conformation they are the better enabled to l)upport the weight of theirbodies, and of which certain genera take advantage in clinging to and climbing upon trees. It is from this that they have received the common name of Climbers, which in strictness is not applicable to aU of them, as there are many true Climbers which by the disposition of their toes cannot belong to this order, instances of which we have already seen in the Creeper and Nuthatch. The Scansorire usually nestle in the hollows of old trees; their powers of flight are middling; their food, like that of the Passerinre, consists of insects or fruit, in proportion &S their beak is more or less stout; some of them, the Woodpeckers for instance, have peculiar means for obtaining it. The hind part of the sternum, in most of the genera, has a double emargination; in the Parrots, there is merely a hole, and very often that is completely filled up. GALBULA, Briss. The Jacamars are closely allied to the Kingfishers by their elongated sharp-pointed beak, the upper ridge of which is angular, and by their sho~·t feet, the anterior toes of which are almost whoiiy united; these toes, however, are not precisely the same as those of the Kingfishers; theh· plumage moreover is not so smooth, and same.-B. hydrocorax, Enl. 282, the young bu·d; ~ol. 2Af·' 2"0 231, the adull Id. 19;-abyssinicus, Enl · 77 9 ' tll e mt' ddleage·' V. allEl. r. ->' d'il NB TheB 1 at f hi h I h 1 b d, E 1933 d h' h 1 780 the female, an ' ' ' ·gate us, o w c we on y ave t 1e ea n. , an w 1c Vieill. Gal. 191;-sulcatus, T. Col. 69;-pa~:en:n~ 1 n ~91 ~bould be the erroneously considers as an aqu~tic bird, is a true Hornbill, but whose the old male; Vaill. Col. 16, 17, 18; mam s~s, n · ' on the beak is invested with an excessively thick horn, the anterior bird;-fasciatus, Vaill. Afr. 233;-exaratus, ~·Col.' 211 ~ . 11 Cal. 22, the of it particularly. HonNDILLS WITHOUT :EXCRESCENCES. B. ;avamw~, .. al ~a bill. Voy., B. general article on the HGrnbills, by Temminck, in the text of the Planclua male; Afr. 239, the old male, same as the Cal. de Wat~wu, tlr()'fltynchos, Enl. P.S. It is to General Hardwick that we are at length indebted for a latus, Vaill. Cal. 20 and 21, are females of the sa,me; ~:Oy ~a.ill. 236, .... I'I,U~IIPrt•~A of the B.galeatus, which proves to be, in fact, a true Hornbill, with :a Vaill. Afr. 238, the young one;-hastatus, Cuv. · Enl. ' cuneiform tail; black; white belly; the tail yellowish, with a black band near natus, Vaill. Afr. 234, 235;-bengalewis, Cal. 23. end, Lin. Tr. XIV, pl. xxviii. |