EURYL^MUS. 385 



Gen. EurylsemilS, ffors/. 



Nostrils concealed by the frontal plumes ; bill longer than in Serilophus, 

 strong and much widened, the sides of the upper mandible overlapping ; eye 

 without caruncle. 



948. Euryl8BmUS javanioUS, Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 170 ; 

 Blyth, B. Burm. p. 125 ; Bp. Consp. i, p. 1 68 ; Walden, /*>,( 1 872, p. 369; 

 Gould, B. Asia i. pi. 57 ; Salvad, Ucc. Born. p. 107 ; Dav., Str. F. v. p. 456 

 (?i,'s/} ; Hume and Dart., Str. F. vi. pp. 89, 499; Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 470; 

 id., viii. pp. 56, 86; Bingham, Str. F.'ix.. p. 157; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. 

 p. 427 ; Sclater, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xiv. p. 463. Eurylaimus horsfieldi, Temm. 



PL Col. 130, 131. -HORSFIELD'S BROAD-BILL. 



Whole head, neck and lower plumage vinaceous purple, darker and 

 blackish on the forehead, chin and throat ; lighter and purer on the lower 

 parts ; above black ; a broad central patch in the middle of the back, large 

 spot on the scapulars and upper tail coverts and bar on the outer webs of the 

 secondaries bright yellow; 'tail black, each feather with a subterminal fulvous 

 white spot ; feathers of the flanks and under tail coverts tipped with 

 yellowish; across the breast a narrow black collar immediately below which 

 the feathers are greenish brown ; edge of the wing and under wing coverts 

 bright yellow ; thighs blackish; under tail coverts rufous. 



In the female the narrow pectoral band is absent. Young birds have the 

 wing coverts tipped with. yellow and the lower plumage is dashed with yellow 

 and orange. Bill dark plumbeous; culmen yellowish ; feet pale hazel. (Dry 

 skin.) In the freshly-killed bird the upper mandible is bright blue to within 

 one-third of the tip, the rest is pale sea green ; lower mandible pale greenish 

 blue, both mandibles edged and tipped with brownish red ; legs and feet 

 fleshy. (Darjisyn.) 



Length. 8-3 to 9 inches ; tail 2*7 to 2*9; wing 4 to 4*3 ; tarsus PI ; bill 

 from gape r6. 



Hal). Tenasserim and throughout the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra, 

 Java and Borneo. It has been found breeding at Bankasoon in March by Mr. 

 Davison. The nest, he says, was a massive structure composed of moss, leaves 

 and twigs, and suspended from the tip of a tall bamboo overhanging a stream. 

 It contained two white eggs, speckled with rusty brown. 



947- EurylsemilS OChromelaS, Raffles, Tram. Linn. Soc. xiii. 

 p. 297 ; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 125 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 168 ; Gould, B. Asia, i. 

 pi. 58 ; Wald., Ibis, 1872, p. 370; Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 91 ; Hume, 

 Str. F. ii. p. 470 ; id., viii. pp. 50, 86 ; Oates, B. Burm. i. p. 426 ; Sclater, 

 Cat. B. Burm. Mus. xiv. p. 465. Eurylaemus cucullatus, Temm., PL Col. 

 261. Cymbirhynchus cucullatus, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1.339, p. 101. The BLACK 

 AND YELLOW BROAD-BILL. 



