410 MANUAL OF PHILimXE BIRDS. 



Order EURYL^MIFOEMES. 



BROAD BILLS. 



Bill ver}' wide and depressed ; nostrils basal, round, and exposed ; third 

 and fourth toes imited for nearly half their length. 



Family ETTRYL^MID^. 



Characters same as those given for the Order. 



Subfamily EURYL.«MIN>E. 



Genus SAECOPHANOPS Sharpe, 1877. 



Eye surrounded by a wide fleshy wattle; tail short, rectrices strongly 

 graduated; wings moderate, first primary shorter than sixth, fourth 

 longest; a well-defined wing-bar across the secondaries. 



tipecies. 



«\ Back gray; wing-bai yellow and white steeri (p. 410) 



a'-. Back vinaceous; wing-bar vinaceous and white samarensis (p. 411) 



377. SARCOPHANOPS STEERI (Sharpe). 



STEERE'S BROADBILL. 



Euryla-mus steerii Sharpe, Nature (1876), 14, 297. 



Sarcophanops steerii Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1877), 1, .■U4, pi. 54; 

 ScLATER, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1888), 14, 402; Bolrns and Wor- 

 cester, Occ. Papers Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. (1894), 1, 53; Hartert, 

 Genera Avium, Eurylaemidse (1905), 6, pi. 1, fig. G (head). 



Sarcophanops sfeerei Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 2; McfJREtiOR and 

 Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 68. 



Basilan {Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Dinagat 

 (Everett) ; Mindanao (Steere Exp., Platen, Bourns d Worcester, Celestino) . 



Adult male. — Forehead and crown deep purple; a few spots of scarlet 

 on occiput, not always present; feathers at base of bill with wliite bases; 

 lores black; a white collar around neck; hind neck, liack, and scapulars 

 slate-gray; rumj) and tail-coverts chestnut, tipped with piirj)]*.' ; tail chest- 

 nut; chin, throat, and sides of head Ijiack; breast, abdomen, and sides 

 lilac, bases of the feathers white; middle of abdomen white; under tail- 

 coverts white, tinged with lilac; thighs blackish gray; wings black; edge 

 of wing and of first ])rimarv white; a distinct bar of golden yellow on 

 secondaries, changing to white on inner secondaries; wing-lining black, 

 axillars white. A male from Basilan measures: Wing, 85; tail, (54; cul- 

 men from base, 22; bill from nostril. 14: tarsus, 20; middle toe with 

 claw, 22. 



Adult female. — Similar, but under parts pure white except the black 

 chin and throat and g-rav thiffhs. A female from Basilan measures: 



