410 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Order EURYLAMIFORMES. 
BRO@# BILLS. 
Bill very wide and depressed ; nostrils basal, round, and exposed ; third 
and fourth toes united for nearly half their length. 
Family EURYLEMIDZ. 
Characters same as those given for the Order. 
Subfamily EURYLAZMIN 2. 
Genus SARCOPHANOPS 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. 
Species. 
a‘. Back gray; wing-bar yellow and white..-..........2..2.-22..s-sseesesecsseseee steeri (p. 410) 
a*. Back vinaceous; wing-bar vinaceous and white.................... samarensis (p. 411) 
377. SARCOPHANOPS STEERI (Sharpe). 
STEERE’S BROADBILL, 
Burylemus steerii SHARPE, Nature (1876), 14, 297. 
Sarcophanops steerti SHARPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1877), 1, 344, pl. 54; 
ScLaTER, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1888), 14, 462; BourRNS and Wor- 
CESTER, Occ. Papers Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. (1894), 1, 53; HARTER, 
Genera Avium, Eurylemide (1905), 6, pl. 1, fig. 6 (head). 
Sarcophanops steerei SHARPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 2; McGrrcor and 
WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 68. 
Basilan (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Dinagat 
(Everett) ; Mindanao (Steere Exp., Platen, Bourns & 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 white bases ; 
lores black; a white collar around neck; hind neck, back, and scapulars 
slate-gray ; rump and tail-coverts chestnut, tipped with purple; tail chest- 
nut; chin, throat, and sides of head black; 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 primary 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, 64; 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 gray thighs. A female from Basilan measures: 
