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The hornbill abounds in Cuttack, and bears there the name of "Kuchila-Kai," or Kuchila-eater, from its partiality for the fruit of the Strychnus nuxvomica.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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