The greyhornbills (Lophoceros birostris) are now seeking out holes in which to deposit their eggs.
On the 30th he observed that the hole had become smaller, and suspected that the hornbills had taken possession.
These latter forms are used exclusively for hornbills whose tough hide and abundant plumage require something stronger than the ordinary arrow.
An arrow with a forked point is occasionally used for small birds, while for hornbills sharp spikes of palma brava are used at times to perforate their tough skins.
In Cassowaries the fronto-nasal region of the skull is produced into an enormous bony crest, and in Hornbills a somewhat similar structure occurs.
The two Celebes Hornbills have no close allies in those which abound in the surrounding countries.
The Hornbills have in some respects the bearing of the Crow: this led Bontius to class them among the Crows, under the name of Indian Crow (Corvus indicus).
Woodpeckers are abundant, belonging to a dozen peculiar genera; while gaudy barbets and strange forms of cuckoos and hornbills are also to be met with everywhere.
Although grey hornbills are by no means uncommon birds, very few nests seem to have been taken.
Hornbills feed largely on fruit and are fond of that of the pipal and the banian trees.
In many parts of Northern India grey hornbills are commonly seen in the avenues of trees which are planted along the high roads to shelter wayfarers from the midday sun.
Another curious feature in the nesting habits of the hornbill does not appear to have been mentioned by any observer, and that is that during the nesting season hornbills go about in threes, and not in pairs.
The beak and tail of each species would fit admirably a bird twice as big as their actual possessor, while birds less than half their size might well look askance at the wings with whichhornbills are blessed.
The nesting habits of the hornbillsare very remarkable.
These hamlets are nearly always surrounded by trees, usually bamboos, among which the hornbills live.
Grey hornbills are birds of the highway and the village.
He had eaten hornbills before, and more than once; had seen others eat them; but had never known or heard of the dish being followed by symptoms similar to those now affecting and afflicting them.
I have elsewhere described the largest of the hornbills as follows: Dichoceros bicornis is "nearly 4-1/2 feet in length.
Hornbills are characterised by the enormous development of the bill.
The great majority of hornbills are confined to the large forests, and so cannot be called common birds.
Great fruit pigeons and huge hornbills frequently fly over one's boat, or perch in trees where they can be shot from the river.
The larger hornbills are very good to eat, but as easy to hit on the wing as a fair-sized door sailing through the air would be, so do not offer much sport.
Since the time of those excellent ornithologists our knowledge of the hornbills has been steadily increasing, but up to the third quarter of the 19th century there was a great lack of precise information, and the publication of D.
Hornbills are social birds, keeping in companies, not to say flocks, and living chiefly on fruits and seeds; but the bigger species also capture and devour a large number of snakes, while the smaller are great destroyers of insects.
Hornbills without the blow, my man," said Lane, laughing.
Hornbills are fruit-eating birds, and would be good roasted.
The Hornbills have in some respects the bearing of the Crow; this led Bontius to class them among the Crows, under the name of Indian Crow.
The Toucans may be said to represent in America the Hornbills in India and Africa.
In some respects, indeed, they resemble theHornbills in the development of the beak.
Several species of hornbills dwell in the forests at the foot of the Himalayas, but only one species is likely to be found at elevations above 5000 feet.
Not long before I arrived at the village of Zadawalka I saw five enormous hornbills feeding in a field close to the path.
I hope that he may soon wring the necks of the hornbills and send them down to us.
Keeping his head down, so as to defend his eyes, he rapidly descended the ladder, the hornbills cawing and screaming all the time.
The hornbills would, at all events, afford them an ample meal for that day, and they might reasonably expect to obtain a further supply of shell-fish from the seashore; though Nub might not succeed in finding another huge mollusc.
That every man's home is his castle, is rightly held in England as an established law, and the hornbills naturally considered their nest their castle.
Hornbills are found in many parts of both Africa and Asia, and most of them live in the trees.
There are two kinds of hornbills which live on the ground.
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