Many species are described, varying in size, among which the Rhinoceros Hornbill is the most worthy of notice.
The plumage of the Hornbill is black or grey, of various shades; but there is a species described by Dr.
For example, where is the link which unites the Crow to the Swallow, or the Hornbill to the Humming-bird?
An ambassador at Stamboul or Constantinople was shown a hornbill spoon, and asked if it were really the bill of the Phoenix.
If the hornbill be the clown of the forest, the adjutant is the buffoon of the open plain.
The actions of the hornbill are in keeping with its appearance.
The bird is undoubtedly based on the frigate-bird, but the crest is a gratuitous addition; in a few instances it seems as if the artist had a hornbill in his mind.
Hundreds of omens by the manner of their happening may modify actions, as, on what side of the road a woodpecker calls, or in which direction a hyena or jackal crosses the path, how the ground hornbill flies or alights, and the like.
Hundreds of birds balanced or fluttered about us, birds of all sizes from the big groundhornbill to the littlest hummers and sun birds.
The Hornbill of Malacca[111] assures the protection of its nest and of the female while she is brooding in a singular manner.
Pictures and like ornaments are unknown, but in lieu of them may be seen trophies of the chase, such as wild-boar jawbones, deer antlers, and hornbill skulls and beaks.
Besides pork, venison, and fish, an occasional wild chicken or other bird snared in the forest, or a hornbill killed with an arrow, helps to keep his larder supplied.
The ground hornbill is confined to Africa; and the tree hornbillof the Philippines does not make its nest at the foot of trees, as in this story.
Minus the scent and song," Swinton added as a hornbill opened his yellow coffin beak to screech in jarring discord.
In this kampong was a young hornbill which was quite domesticated and frequently came to rest on the top of my tent.
The hornbill is an embodiment of force that may be either beneficent or harmful, and has been appropriated by the Dayaks to serve various purposes.
A gong or gutshi strung near the top signifies that the deceased was a person of wealth and prominence, while a wooden image of the rhinoceros hornbill occupies a lofty position on the pinnacle.
He put on tiger skin, placed on his head a rattan cap with many tail feathers of the hornbill fastened to it, took his parang, his shield adorned with human hair, and his sumpitan.
The great hornbill (rhinoflax vigil) flies high over the jungle in a straight line and usually is heard before it is seen, so loud is the noise made by the beating of the wings.
A man with many tail-feathers from the rhinoceros hornbill (buceros rhinoceros) stuck into his rattan cap seated himself on a crude platform which had been built on upright poles over the water.
Two tall memorial staffs, called pantars, had been erected, but instead of the wooden image of the great hornbill which usually adorns the top, the Dutch flag presented itself to view.
The sumpitan, called sawput, is no longer made and the tribe is not very apt at its use; therefore, being unable to kill the great hornbill themselves, these natives have to buy its highly valued tail feathers from the Punans.
Under some forms, the hornbill theory becomes respectable.
It is from these women, in Washington, New York, and elsewhere, that the loudest appeal for the hornbill standard of domesticity proceeds.
When the remonstrant petitions legislatures against the emancipation of woman, we seem to hear the twittering of the hornbill mother, imploring to be left inside.
The hornbill household is based on a strict application of the old common law.
But even the most honest and peaceful conservatives will one day admit that the hornbill is not the highest model.
We were fortunate enough to secure a series of fourteen specimens of this rarehornbill from Sulu and Tawi Tawi.
A hornbill collected in Albay Province, Luzon, and recorded by Grant as the young of P.
The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger.
The men also imitate the movements of monkeys and of the hornbill and the various strange sounds made by the latter.
Instead of a hornbill MOTIF, a dog's head MOTIF is sometimes tatued on the thigh, an example of which is figured on Pl.
Kayan woman of the Blu-u river, a tributary of the Upper Mahakkam; the main design is evidently a hornbill derivative, the knuckles are tatued with quadrangular and rectangular blotches.
If these two latter designs are compared with the hornbill design of the Long Glat, a figure of which, taken from Nieuwenhuis [9, Pl.
Their designs are modifications of the hornbill and dog's head designs of the Long Glat.
The hornbill must be included among the sacred birds of the Iban, although it does not give omens.
The Hornbill is famous for the size and shape of its bill, which is very large.
Mr. Wallace describes the habit of the male Hornbill of shutting up the female during the period of incubation and feeding her through a small hole left open for the purpose.
The jealous-hearted Hornbill of the Old World never trusts his spouse to wander away from the nest after her duties there once begin.
In our own western country there dwells a bird known as the Phalarope, the females of which enjoy {47} an immunity from domestic duties that might cause the lady Hornbill many an envious sigh did she know of the freedom of her American sister.
Asiatic hornbill (Buceros pica) which resembles a woodpecker in color.
A largehornbill (Buceros rhinoceros), native of the East Indies.
If, as seems probable, the hornbill was taken as a substitute for the frigate-bird in places where the latter did not exist, this may be important.
In Selangor I have heard a similar story; but in this case it was a red-crested hornbill which supplied the buttons, which latter were said to turn green on the approach of poison.
The only solid-crested hornbill is, I believe, the Rhinoplax.
An old Malay (in Selangor) once told me that the hornbill was the king of the birds until dispossessed by the eagle (Rajawali).
The hornbill is perhaps the most striking in appearance.
The Singhalese have a belief that the hornbill never resorts to the water to drink; but that it subsists exclusively by what it catches in its prodigious bill while rain is falling.
In an instant afterwards, it was seen resting on a spur-like projection of the trunk, just below the aperture; and it needed not Ossaroo to tell them that it was the cock hornbill that had there alighted.
Not dreaming of any danger in that direction, the robber only thought of guarding his "daylights" against the hornbill upon the wing.
How the affair might have ended had the panda and the hornbill been the only parties to the combat, can but be guessed at.
Hence the hornbill has obtained among the colonists the name of Yerrvogel (year bird).
On April 28th he saw a hornbill inspecting the hole, regardless of the noisy protests of the paroquets.
On May 6th Mr. Currie watched the cock hornbill feeding the hen.
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.
Owing to the weight of the beak, the hornbill is in danger of toppling over, head foremost, as it alights on a branch, and assuredly would sometimes do so but for the long tail which serves to balance the great beak.
In either case the hornbill has usually to enlarge the cavity, for, being a big bird, it requires a spacious nest.
Like the other members of this peculiar family, the grey hornbill possesses eyelashes, which increase the strangeness of its appearance.
So vigorously does the hornbill have to flap its wings during flight that the sound of the air rushing through them can be heard for nearly half a mile in the case of the largest species.
The common grey hornbill (Lophoceros birostris) is characterised by the possession of what is known as a casque--an appendage which the other two species of grey hornbill lack.
Why the hen hornbill behaves thus, why she is content to submit periodically to a term of "simple imprisonment," is one of the unsolved riddles of Nature.
The majority of species of hornbill shun the vicinity of human beings.
The cry of the grey hornbill is feeble for so large a bird, and is querulous, like that of the common kite.
When the hornbill has severed a berry, it tosses it into the air, catches it in the bill as it falls, and then swallows it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hornbill" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
