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n. - The type genus of a the hornbill family of birds.

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  • Buceros bicornis, which one of them assured me he had shot while feeding the female, which was shut up in a hole in a tree.
  • The Sumatran lowland forests harbor a remarkable ten hornbill species, including the great hornbill (Buceros bicornis), absent on other Indonesian islands.
  • Near sunset an immense flock of the large species of horn-bill (Buceros cristatus) came here to roost on the great trees which skirt the edge of the cliff.
  • Some of these species are Blyth's tragopan (Tragopan blythii), great hornbill (Buceros bicornis), wreathed hornbill (Aceros undulatus), and rufous-necked hornbill...
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