. A general history of birds . inct. At first sightit gives a strong idea of the Hornbill, and has been by some madea species thereof; but the situation of the toes gives it a claim to rankas a Genus apart. AUSTRALASIAN CHANNEL-BILL—Pl. XXXII. Scythrops Novse Hollandiae, 141. Encycl. Britan. , pi. 440. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. Hornbill, Phil. Bot. Bay, pi. p. Hornbill, Whites Journal, pi. p. Channel-Bill, Shaws Zool. viii. 37S. pi. , Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 96. pi. 124. .SIZE of a Crow; total length twenty-seven inch
. A general history of birds . inct. At first sightit gives a strong idea of the Hornbill, and has been by some madea species thereof; but the situation of the toes gives it a claim to rankas a Genus apart. AUSTRALASIAN CHANNEL-BILL—Pl. XXXII. Scythrops Novse Hollandiae, 141. Encycl. Britan. , pi. 440. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. Hornbill, Phil. Bot. Bay, pi. p. Hornbill, Whites Journal, pi. p. Channel-Bill, Shaws Zool. viii. 37S. pi. , Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 96. pi. 124. .SIZE of a Crow; total length twenty-seven inches. That of thebill about four; this is very stout at the base, curving the whole ofits length, and the upper mandible hooked at the point; above it isridged, narrow, and channelled on the sides at the base, the nostrilsplaced close to the setting on of the feathers; these are round, andsurrounded with a naked red skin, continuing on each side betweenthem and the eye, and quite round it, but the bare parts are most m. Yeas ./^//srsu/tAosss^/M,// CHANNEL-BILL. 301 considerable above; the tongue is pointed, near three-fourths of thelength of the bill ; irides hazel, and the pupil uncommonly clear;the head, neck, and under parts of the body are ash coloured grey ;back and wings bluish ash-colour, each feather tipped with black ;quills darker, but grow paler within, near the base ; the first quill isshorter than the second, by near four inches, and the second full oneinch shorter than the third, which is the longest of all, and the wings,when closed, reach full three-fourths on the tail—this is cuneiform,deep ash-colour; the two middle feathers eleven inches long, theouter less than eight; near the ends of all a bar of black, which takesup most space in the middle ones, the tips of all for about one inchwhite ; the margins of the inner webs from the middle to the base, inall but the two middle feathers, are barred black and white; thighsand vent barred the same, but pal
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