Hornbill Collection

A Malayan forest, with its characteristic birds
Plate 9 from Alfred Russel Wallaces The Geographical Distribution of Animals, (1876)

Oriental pied-hornbill, Anthracoceros albirostris (White-beaked hornbill, Buceros albirostris). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Blyths hornbill, Rhyticeros plicatus
Blyths or Papuan hornbill, Rhyticeros plicatus (Wreathed hornbill, Buceros plicatus). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester

Malabar pied hornbill, Anthracoceros coronatus (Pied hornbill, Buceros malabaricus). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester

Channel-billed cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae (Australasian channel-bill, Psittaceous hornbill). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds

Beak of a toucan, Ramphastos species, and unknown bird (Cassowary species?). Bec d un toucan, bec d un certain oiseau a nez de rhiniceros

Knobbed hornbill, Aceros cassidix. Vulnerable
Knobbed hornbill or Sulawesi wrinkled hornbill, Aceros cassidix (Crested hornbill, Buceros cassidix). Vulnerable. Handcoloured engraving from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier

Rhinoceros hornbill and Abyssinian ground hornbill
Rhinoceros hornbill, Buceros rhinoceros, and Abyssinian ground hornbill, Bucorvus abyssinicus. Handcoloured lithograph from Th

Hawker Hornbill, J7782, in its original form

Carved Hornbill Skull
Casque of a helmeted hornbill (Rhinoplax vigil) carved to depict a Chinese battle scene set in a town by a river. There also features a figure holding a flag bearing the Chinese w鮠 character

Rhinoceros hornbill, Buceros rhinoceros, near threatened.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris, France, 1816-1830

Anthracoceros albirostris convexus, Oriental pied hornbill
Plate 39, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Tockus erythrorhynchus, Red-billed hornbill
Watercolour by Claude Finch-Davies

Rhinoceros hornbill or rhinoceros bird, Buceros rhinoceros.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

Ground Hornbill - Landing on tree (Bucorvus leadbeateri). Moremi - Okavango Delta - Savuti - Botswana - Africa. Latin formerly Bucorvus cafer

Buceros rhinoceros, rhinoceros hornbill skull
Back view of a skull of the rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros), from the Sloane collection

Notes on birds in Macassar
Manuscript notes on the hornbill bird (Buceros cassidix), undated, circa 1856

Bycanistes brevis, silvery-cheeked hornbill
Watercolour and pencil by Claude Gibney Finch-Davies (1940). One of twenty-three species of hornbill found in Africa

Big-beaked Birds

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