The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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albicornis

L. albus  white; cornu, cornus or cornum, corni  horn.


bicornis

L. bicornis  two-horned  < bi- two-  < bis  twice; cornum, corni  horn.
● "46. BUCEROS.  ...  bicornis.  1. B. fronte ossea plana antrorsum bicorni. Amœn. acad. 4. p. . .  Calao. Pet. gaz. 43. t. 28. f. 6. & t. 31. f. 1. Will. Ornith. t. 17. f. 1.  Habitat in China.  Corpus magnitudine Gallinæ, nigrum; subtus pectore, abdomine, femoribus album. Macula alba in remigibus alarum. Cauda longiuscula. Rectrices 10, nigræ, extimis utrinque albis. Pedes virescentes: digitis 3 anticis; 1 postico." (Linnaeus 1758) (Buceros).


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