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Title: Rhinoceros Hornbilll
Subtitle: Buceros Rhinoceros
Publication : A Monograph of the Bucerotidae, or Family of the Hornbills
Author: Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915)
Artist: Johannes Gerardus Keulemans (J. G. Keulemans) (8 June 1842 – 29 March 1912)
Paper Size: 38.0 x 27.5 cm
Edition: 60 lithographic plates, comprising 57 hand-coloured plates by and after J. G. Keulemans, and 3 uncoloured plates of generic characters by and after J. Smit
Descrition: The last of Elliott's great ornithological monographs. Zimmer calls it 'a comprehensive treatment of the entire family of hornbills', a genus between the Kingfishers and the Hoopoes, inhabiting the Ethiopian, Oriental and Australian regions. 'The formidable bill ... formidable in appearance only, as it is mainly hollow and permeated with a network of boney fibres,' was a peculiarity that interested Elliot. Another characteristic, unusual in birds, was 'the possession of long and strong eyelashes....' The family is arranged into two divisions, the ground- and tree-hornbills, the first consisting of just three species and the last over fifty in number. Plate 44 although included on the plate list was never issued.
