these illusions of first impressions, when you catch a glimps of their 
graceful tails, which they spread out fan-like, as the birds let them- 
selves drop from a hight down to the perch, after capturing an insect 
passing over, much above the tallest trees, which Broadbills secure 
on the wing; much the same way as a fly-catcher. Once you witness 
this graceful performance, you are soon convinced that the birds at 
some distance from you are no ordinary parrakeets. They remind 
one of the Ampelidae or the brightly coloured Jreninw Blue-birds, or 
at times the more sedate Coraciadac. Bill is short, broad and de- 
pressed, margins dilated, ridge (Culmen) rounded, tip hooked ; nares 
with a few bristles; wings shortish; tail graduated, giving it a 
rounded appearance; tarsus short; outer toe syndactyle. Their 
food like Rollers and Bee-eaters insectivorous. 
(138) Psartsomus DaALHousta, Vellow-throated Broadtill. This 
species is found at a lower elevation than Darjeeling. In spring it 
ascends to near on 6,000 feet. It is a woods loving bird, and _ sel- 
dom comes out into more open country. It frequents as a rule, 
dense forests. This species keeps much in pairs, and feeds occa- 
sionally on larvae, mostly on insects, beetles, butterflies and day- 
moths. In size 14 inches; bill green, black on the ridge; orbitar 
skin yellow ; plumage is a predominating bright parrot green, above, 
here and there yellow, blue and black; blue showing conspicuously 
as a wing patch; tail blue; a yellow patch behind the eyes ; upper 
part of the neck and throat yellow ; a blue patch on crown of the 
head; lower parts of the body bluish-green. These birds build a 
big egg shaped pendent nest, some 30 feet from the ground, con- 
structed of creepers of fibrous plants, pulled of in strips and worked 
round outside of the nest. Within are grasses and broadish bam- 
boo spathes. Eggs are elongated ovals, either pure glassy white, or 
blotched with red and pale reddish purple on a pinky tinged ground. 
(139) Seritopus Rusropyeta, Red-hacked Broadbill, is rare in 
the district and only occasionally met with in the interior of Sikkim 
and Bhutan hills. Lengthitis 74 inches ; head crested ; bill, bluish in 
colour, similarly shaped, only shallower than Yellow-throated species ; 
colour of the plumage differs from Dalhousiac: above, back is olive, 
rest of the feathers slaty grey, excepting upper tail coverts and 
lower back, which are deep chesnut, also tertiaries ; blue wing patch 
on primaries; quills and tail black, tipped white; underpart pale 
grey. This bird is about half the size of the former species. 
