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943- PsarisomilS dalllOUSise (Jameson}, Jerd., B. Ind. \. p. 236, 

 No. 138; Blyth, B. Bunn. p. 126; WahL, Ibis, 1875, p. 460 ; Hume, 

 Sir. F. ii. p. 470 ; Hume and DO.V., Str. F. vi. p. 88 ; Bingham t Str. F. viii. 

 p. 193 ; id., Str. F. ix. p. 156 ; Gates, Str. F. x. p. 188 ; id., B. Br. Burm. 

 i. p. 423 ; Gould, B. Asia i. pi. 64 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1887, p. 453 ; Sclater, 

 Cat. B. Br. MILS. xiv. p. 458. Psarisomus assimilis, Hume, Str. F. iiu 

 p. 53. The LONG-TAILED BROAD-BILL. 



Top and sides of the head black ; a large patch on the crown and a line 

 on the back of the nape bright blue ; a line at the base of the bill, lores, 

 cheeks, chin, throat, and sides of the neck meeting the blue nuchal band 

 bright yellow ; a spot above the ear coverts yellow ; upper plumage, including 

 the wing coverts, tertiaries and outer webs of the secondaries green ; the 

 inner webs of the latter and primaries dark brown ; first eight primaries with 

 a white bar on the inner webs, and a large patch of bright blue on the basal 

 portion of their outer webs ; tail graduated; blue above, and black beneath ; 

 under surface of the body bright bluish green ; bill horn colour in the dry 

 skin ; the culmen and edge yellowish. In the fresh skin the bill is green, 

 the anterior half of the culmen bluish, the middle of the lower mandible 

 dusky orange, also a patch of the same on the edge of the upper mandible. 

 (Oates.} Irides brown ; legs dull greenish. 



Length. 10-5 inches ; tail 5 ; v;ing 4-1 ; tarsus ri ; bill from gape 1-3. 



Hal. Eastern Himalayas and through Assam and Cachar down to Tenas- 

 serim, Sumatra and Borneo. Recorded from Mussoorie, Naini Tal, Gurhwal, 

 Sikkim, Darjeeling, Nepal, Bhootan and Assam ; also the Karen hills, Cachar, 

 Tonghoo, Pegu, Rangoon and various parts of Tenasserim. According to 

 Capt. Bingham it is common in the Thoungyeen Valley. Unlike the 

 preceding species, this bird lives on insects and inhabits the thickest forests, 

 going about singly or in pairs. It breeds in Tenasserim during April. The 

 nest, according to Capt. Bingham, is suspended from the branch of a very 

 thorny tree. Nothing is known of its eggs.. 



Gen. SerilOpllUS. Swains. 



General characters as in Psarisomus, tail much rounded, shorter than the 

 wing. Bill narrow and short ; sides of upper mandible not overlapping. 

 Plumage smooth and silky; 1st four primaries with slender pointed tips, 

 and the secondaries emarginate ; 3rd and 4th quills longest and equal ; 

 tarsus moderate ; toes slender. 



944- SorilOpllUS lunatUSCGW/foQ, Swainson, Classif. B. ii. p. 262 ; 



id., Flycatchers, p. 242 ; Bp. Consp i. p. 169 ; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 125 ; Hume,. 

 Str. F. ii. p. 470 ; id., iii. pp. 470, 73 ; D ivison, Str. F. v. p. 455 ; Hume 

 and Dav., Str. F. vi. pp. 89, 499 ; O<ites, Sir. F. viii. p. 164 ; x. p. 188; id.> 

 B . Br. Bunn. i. p. 424 ; Gould, B. Asia i. pi. 62 ; Bingham, Str. F. ix. 

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