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XX. Description of a New Species of the Genus Eurylaimus of Dr. Horsfield. By 
Mr. Joun Goutp, F.L.S. Communicated by the Secretary. 
Communicated December 10, 1833. 
THE genus Eurylaimus, established by Dr. Horsfield for the reception of a bird dis- 
covered by him in Java, has since received the accession of a second species, obtained 
in Sumatra by the late Sir T. Stamford Raffles. To these I am now enabled to add a 
third, derived from a different though neighbouring locality, and especially remarkable 
for the elegance of its plumage. 
M. Temminck has, I am aware, referred to this group two other species ; and a third 
has recently been added to it by M. Lesson, who has, at the same time, proposed the 
removal from it of one of those placed in it by M. Temminck. On each of these I 
shall venture to offer a few observations. 
The first of M. Temminck’s additions is the only species which has at any time been 
referred to the Eurylaimi from among the birds known previously to the researches of 
Dr. Horsfield and Sir T. S. Raffles in Java and Sumatra: it is the great-billed Tody of 
the first edition of Dr. Latham’s ‘ General Synopsis of Birds’', a name translated by 
Gmelin, shortly after its appearance, into Todus macrorhynchos®. This trivial name was 
not adopted by the original describer of the species, who, in his ‘ Index Ornithologicus’®, 
applied to his great-billed Tody the appellation of Todus nasutus ; and nasutus appears 
since to have been employed by all ornithologists, with the exception of M. Desmarest, 
who has given to the bird the name of Platyrhynchus ornatus. With M. Temminck it 
became the Eurylaimus nasutus. But the largeness and convexity of the bill in this 
bird, the oval form of the nostrils, their position near the middle of the bill, and 
other characters deviating from the structure of the typical Eurylaimus, afford reasons 
against its being associated with that genus, and in favour of regarding it as constituting 
a distinct type of form. As such it has been regarded by Dr. Horsfield and Mr. Vigors, 
who, in the Appendix to the ‘ Life of Sir T. Stamford Raffles’*, have characterized under 
the name of Cymbirhynchus, the genus to which it belongs. It is consequently the 
Cymbirhynchus nasutus, Vig. and Horsf. 
M. Temminck’s second addition to the genus is the Eurylaimus Sumatranus, Vig. and 
Horsf., originally described under the name of Coracias Sumatranus, by Sir T. Stam- 
ford Raffles in his ‘ Descriptive Catalogue of a Zoological Collection made in Sumatra’, 
published in the ‘ Transactions of the Linnean Society’®. In figuring this bird M. Tem- 
Vol. ii. p. 664. t. 30. 2 Linn., Syst. Nat. Ed. 13, p. 446. 3 P. 268. 
+P. 654. 5 Vol. xiii. p. 303. 
