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Order EURYL^BMIFOllMES. 



BROAD BILLS. 



Bill very wide and depressed; nostrils basal, round, and exposed; third 

 and fourth toes united for nearly half their length. 



Family 

 Characters same as those given for the Order. 



Subfamily EURYL^EMINyG. 

 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. 



a 1 . Back gray; wing-bar yellow and white ............................................ steeri (p. 410) 



a 2 . Back vinaceous; wing-bar vinaceous and white .................... samarensis (p. 411) 



377. SARCOPHANOPS STEERI i Sharpe). 

 STEERE'S BROADBILL. 



Eurylwmus steerii SHABPE, Nature (1876), 14, 297. 



Sarcophanops steerii SHABPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1877), 1, 344, pi. 54; 

 SCLATEB, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1888), 14, 462; BOURNS and WOR- 

 CESTER, Occ. Papers Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. (1894), 1, 53; HARTERT, 

 Genera Avium, Euryltemidce (1905), 6, pi. 1, fig. 6 (head). 



Sarcophanops steerei SHABPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 2; MCGREGOR and 

 WOBCESTEB, Hand-List (1906), 68. 



Basilan (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d 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: 



