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Head, neck, upper back and pectoral hand black ; lower throat up to the 

 pectoral band white, forming a collar round the back of the neck ; a mesial 

 band down the back, and the rump and upper tail coverts bright yellow ; vent, 

 sides of the body and under tail coverts also bright yellow; back yellow, each 

 feather margined with black ; spots on scapulars, and outer webs of secondaries 

 yellow; primaries black, a small portion of the outer webs near the base 

 yellowish white ; lesser wing coverts mixed yellow and Mack, the greater series 

 black ; under wing coverts and flanks yellow ; thighs black; tail black, each 

 feather with a subterminal yellowish white spot on the inner webs ; breast 

 and abdomen pale claret colour. (Dry skin.) Bill plumbeous, with yellowish 

 culmen and edges ; feet reddish ; irides bright yellow. 



Length. 6-5 inches; tail 2-3; wing 3-2; tarsus O'S ; bill from gape ri. 

 ' Hab. Tenasserim and the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. 

 According to Mr. Davison it is uncommon in Tenasserim. In habits, he says 

 it resembles the other Broad-bills, and like the rest is chiefly insectivorous. 

 He often shot the birds while catching insects on the wing. 



Gen. Cor yd OH Lesson. 



Bill nearly as wide as long, and strongly hooked. Colouration dull. One 

 species only. 



948. Corydon sumatranus (Raffles}, StrickL, Ann. Nat. Hist. \\. 



p. 417 ; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 125 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 168 ; Hume and~Dav,, Sir. 

 F. vi. p. 97 ; Gould, B. Asia i. pi. 6 1 ; Walden, Ibis, 1872, p. 369; Oates y 

 B. Br. Burmah, i p. 430; Sclater, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xiv. p. 467. Coracias 

 sumatranus, Roffles, Tram. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 303. Eurylsemus sumatranus; 

 Horsf. et Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. 1. Co. i. p. 1 17. The DUSKY BROAD-BILL. 



Whole plumage dull black ; upper breast and throat light brownish white ; 

 middle of back with a large concealed patch of white tinged with crimson ; 

 alar speculum white ; tail black, with a broad white subterminal band on all 

 the lateral rectrices. 



The young bird is sooty black throughout, and has not the patch of white 

 on the back ; the upper breast and throat are duller brown. Bill plumbeous 

 above, yellowish beneath ; feet black. 



Length. 10 to 10*5 inches; tail 4-2; wing 5-4; tarsus ri ; bill from 

 gape 1-6. 



Hab. Tennaserim, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. 



Gen. Cytnborhynchus. Vigors. 



Bill not as wide as in Corydon ; nostrils in a longitudinal sulcus in the 

 centre of the mandible. 



949. Cymborhynehus macrorhynchus (Gm.), G. R. Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 66; Blyth, B.Biirm.,^. 126; Walden, Ibis, 1872, p. 270; 



