288 EUBYL^MID.5. 



Order EURYL/EML 



Family EURYL^MID^E. 



Calyptomena viridis, Kaffl. Tlie Green BroadbUl. 

 C'alyptoniL'iia viiidis, liaffi., Hume, Cat. no. 137 bis. 



jNlr. J. Dtirliug, Juuior, found .several uests of this specie.s in 

 Teiiasserim. He says : — • 



" April 3rcl. Found a nest of Calyptomena uirulis, with three 

 eggs. Of these two were well set and one rotten. The nest 

 was suspended from the branch of a small sapling, 4^ feet 

 from the ground, and was in the heart of heavy forest at the 

 foot of Xwalabo mountain, in an easterly direction some 37 

 miles from Ta\oy. 



'•April 10th. Took three set eggs of C. viridis in heavy jungle 

 at the foot of Nwalal)o ; the nest \\as suspended from the branch 

 of a small sapling, o feet from the ground. This nest was in the 

 same locality as the one taken on the 3rd. 



" April 11th. Also another nest of C. viridis, just completed 

 but with no eggs. This nest had no tail-like appendage, but had 

 a great deal of moss incorporated with it ; 6 feet from ground." 



The nests of this species obtained in the neighbourhood of 

 Xwalabo in Tenasserim ai"e perhaps the most remarkable of any of 

 the nests of the Broadbills. They are invariably suspended from 

 small twigs, generally across them and not from tlie extreme tip, 

 and are egg-shaped, except at the top, where they are, as it were, 

 pinched out flat along the twig, and from them depends a long tail, 

 in some specimens fully 3 feet in length. The body of the nest is 

 only about 9 inches in length and 4 in diameter; the entrance 

 is large and oval, towards the upper part of the nest, from 3 to 3| 

 inches in height, and 2 to 2^ in width ; the cavity is also perfectly 

 egg-shaped, and is from 5| inches to 6| in height, and 3 to 34 in 

 diameter. Exteriorly the nest, which is very closely put together, 

 and much more compressed and compact than that of Psarisoinm 

 dalhousiei', is sometimes composed entirely of fine grass, and it is 

 in these nests in which the tail, also entirely composed of this 

 same fine grass, is most developed. In others less of this grass is 

 used, andago.od deal of moss is incorporated in the outer structure. 

 In others again (juantities of line hair-like black roots and moss 

 form the chief constituents of tlie exterior of the nests, though in 

 these, too, a good deal of fine grass and other vegetable fibre is 

 intermixed, and in these nests the tail is less developed, being here 

 only 8 or 10 inches in length. Inside this exterior coating the 



