458 euryl^mid^;. 



mainly insects, while Calyptomena is said to be purely frugivorous. 

 The Euri/lamhice, so far as their nesting habits are known, appear 

 to build domed nests suspended from the branches of trees, and to 

 lay spotted eggs. 



Key to the Genera. 



A. Nostrils more or less rounded, placed at 



the base of the frontal plumes. 



«. Tail longer than wing 2. Psahisomus, p. 458. 



b. Tad shorter than wing. 



a. Bill short; sides of upper man- 



dible not overlapping 3. Serilophus, p. 460. 



b. Bill longer ; sides of upper man- 



dible slightly overlapping. 



j With an eye-caruncle .... 4. Sarcophanops, p. 462. 

 ) Without an eye-caruncle . . 5. Euryl.em us, p. 463. 



c. Bill very broad and strongly 



hooked ; sides of upper man- 

 dible much overlapping 6. Corydon, p. 466. 



B. Nostrils lineiform, placed in a slit in the 



middle of the mandible 7. Cymborhynchus, p. 468. 



2. PSARISOMUS. 



Type. 



Psarisonuis, 8w. Class. B. ii. p. 261 (1837) P. dalhousias. 



Crossodera, Gould, Icon. Av. pi. i. (1837) P. dalhousise. 



Raya, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. viii. p. 36 (1839) P. dalhousije. 



Sinius, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. x. p. 27 (1841) P. dalhousia?. 



Simornis, Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844) P. dalhousise. 



This lovely bird is structurally distinguished from the other Eury- 

 Icemi by its very long and much graduated tail, and by the small 

 frontal plumes which partly conceal the nostrils. It has an extensive 

 range from the Eastern Himalayas through the Malay Peninsula to 

 Borneo. 



1. Psarisomus dalhousiae. 



Eurylaimus dalhousiae, Jameson, Edinb. N. Ph. J. xviii. p. 389 (1835) ; 



Horsfield, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 156 (Assam). 

 Psarisomus dalhousia?, Jevd. B. Ind. i. p. 236 ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 4 ; 



Blyth, B. Burnt, p. 126; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xiii. 



p. 453, et ser. 2, v. p. 574 ; Walden, Ibis, 1875, p. 460 ; Hume, 



Str. F. ii. p. 470 (Tenasserim), iii. p. 52 (Upp. Pegu), v. p. 19 



(N.E. Cachar); Hume fy Dav. Str. F. vi. p. 88 (Tenasserim); 



Bingham, Str. F. viii. p. 193, ix. p. 156 (Tenasserim) ; Oates, Str. 



F. x. p. 188 (Pegu) ; id. B. Br. Burnt, i. p. 423 ; Gould, B. Asia, 



i. pi. 64 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1887, p. 453 (Borneo). 

 Eurylaimus (Psarisomus) dalhousise, Horsf. et Moore, Cat. B. E.I. 



Co. Mus. i. p. 117. 

 Psarisomus assimilis, Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 53. 

 Raya sericeogula, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. viii. p. 36 (1839). 

 Simornis (Raya) sericeogula, Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844). 



