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[fernando]

Hi Fearn, it's a pleasure seeing you coming in

Originally Posted by fearn

... the "hood" on the pommel are actually eyelashes on a hornbill...

It's precisely with the (Abyssinian) ground hornbill species that the bird possibility becomes stronger, i guess.

Originally Posted by chevalier

... the hilt still could be a representation of a ground hornbill, which has huge red wattles around its eyes.

Eventually i was misguided by a web site which mentioned that this bird exists in the area east to Uganda.

http://montereybay.com/creagrus/ground_hornbills.html

Fernando