288 EUBYLJEMID^E. 



Order EURYL.EMI. 



Calyptomena viridis, Eaffl. The Green Broadbill. 

 Calyptomena viridis, llaffl., Hume^ Cat. no. 137 bis. 



Mr. J. Darling, Junior, found several nests of this species in 

 Tenasserim. He says : 



" April 3rd. Found a nest of Calyptomena viridis, with three 

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

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

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

 foot of ^walabo mountain, in an easterly direction some 37 

 miles from Tavoy. 



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

 at the foot of Nwalabo ; the nest was suspended from the branch 

 of a small sapling, 5 feet from the ground. This nest was in the 

 same locality as the one taken on the 3rd. 



" April llth. 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 

 ]S T walabo in Tenasserim are 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 the 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 3| in 

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

 and much more compressed and compact than that of Psarisonms 

 dalhousice, 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, and a good deal of moss is incorporated in the outer structure. 

 In others again quantities of fine hair-like black roots and moss 

 form the chief constituents of the 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 



