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Indian raven
Indian raven n. Obsolete (a) (perhaps) the broad-billed roller, Eurystomus glaucurus (rare); (b) either of two hornbills of South Asia: the rhinoceros hornbill, Buceros rhinoceros, and (perhaps) an immature black hornbill, Anthracoceros malayanus.
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1601 W. Walker tr. J. C. van Neck Jrnl. Voy. Eight Shippes of Amsterdam f. 8v A bird, which we named Indian Rauen, almost as big agane as a Parret, they are of two or three sundrie colours.
1675 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 10 485 The tasting of the Indian Raven of Nutmegs, on which he feeds.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. 126 Bontius his Indian Raven. There is a strange kind of Raven in the Molucca Islands.., which resembles our Country Raven in the Bill.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. 127 (heading) The horned Indian Raven or Topau, called the Rhinocerot Bird.
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 383 Buceros niger..in shape somewhat resembles the crow kind, whence, and from it's size, it has been called the Indian Raven.
1858 A. M. Redfield Zoöl. Sci. 351 What is said of the Indian Raven?
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