Crossword-Solution: HORNBILLS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Many large hornbills, hawks, monkeys, antelopes, and rhinoceroses found a home and food among the great trees round its base.

Wild pigs of large size were very plentiful and he generally got one or two a week, besides deer occasionally, and abundance of jungle-fowl, hornbills, and great fruit pigeons.

The great hornbills of Celebes (Buceros cassidix) would often come with loud-flapping wings, and perch upon a lofty tree just in front of me; and the black baboon-monkeys, Cynopithecus nigrescens, often stared down in astonishment at such an intrusion into their domains while at night herds of wild pigs roamed about the house, devouring refuse, and obliging us to put away everything eatable or breakable from our little cooking-house.

Tall gaunt trees rose out of the corn on all sides, and in the early morning they were full of bird-life--parrots, parakeets, cockatoos, pigeons, woodpeckers, gapers and hornbills, etc.

The large hornbills ("Gasalo") were very hard to stalk, and as they generally frequented the tallest trees they were out of shot.