. A dictionary of birds . (Toucan) restsonly on the apparent similarity presented by the enormous beak,and is contradicted by important structural characters. In many oftheir habits, so far as these are known, all Hornbills seem to bemuch alike, and though the modification in the form of the beak,. HoMRAi OR Great Indian Hornbill (Dichoceros hicornis). After Tickells drawing in theZoological Societys library. and the presence or absence of the extraordinary excrescence,^whence their name is derived, causes great diversity of asj^ectamong them, the possession of prominent eyelashes (not a commo
. A dictionary of birds . (Toucan) restsonly on the apparent similarity presented by the enormous beak,and is contradicted by important structural characters. In many oftheir habits, so far as these are known, all Hornbills seem to bemuch alike, and though the modification in the form of the beak,. HoMRAi OR Great Indian Hornbill (Dichoceros hicornis). After Tickells drawing in theZoological Societys library. and the presence or absence of the extraordinary excrescence,^whence their name is derived, causes great diversity of asj^ectamong them, the possession of prominent eyelashes (not a common ^ Buffoii, as was his manner, enlarges on the crnel injustice clone to tliesobirds by Nature in encumbering them witii this deformity, -wliicli lie declaresmust hinder them from getting their Ibod with ease. The only corroboration his])crverted view receives is afforded by the observed fact that Hornbills, in cap-tivity at any rate, never have any fat about them. HORN-PIE—HUIA 437 featui-e in Birds) produces a uniformity of expression which makesit impossible to mistake any member of the Family. Hornbills aresocial birds, keeping in companies, not to say flocks, and livingchiefly on fruits and seeds; but the bigger species also capture anddevour a large number of snakes, while the small
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