COETDON. 5 



nest was a massive structure composed of moss, fibres, roots, dry 

 leaves, bits of wood, and small twigs, suspended to the eitreme tip 

 of a very tall bamboo overhanging a stream. Two fresh eggs were 

 in the nest, dull white, thickly .speckled with minute spots of dusky 

 brown, more thickly towards the large end : size 1*09 by *76. 



938. Eurylaemus ochromelas. The Blaclc-and-yellow Broadbill. 



Eurylaimus ochromalus, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Sac. xiii, p. 297 (1822) ; 



JJlt/th, Cat. p. 195 ; Horsf. Sf M. Cat. p. 116. 

 Eurylflemus ochromelas, Blyth, Birds Burm. p. 125 ; Hume, S. F. ii, 



p. 470 ; id. Cat. no. 139 ter A ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 91 ; 



Oates, B. B. i, p. 426 ; Sclatcr, Cat. B. M. xiv, p. 465 ; Hartert, 



J.f. Orn. 1889, pp. 358, 391. 



Coloration. Male. Whole head black, except a few white fea- 

 thers below each eye ; a white collar round the neck, narrow 

 behind; upper parts from neck black, with a bright yellow stripe 

 down the middle of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, and a 

 shorter stripe on each side on the outer scapulars ; basal portion 

 of interscapulary feathers white ; middle of outer webs of secondary 

 quills yellow ; near the base almost all wing-feathers have a 

 whitish inner border; a small yellowish spot on each primary 

 nrar the base; tail-feathers with a subterminal yellowish- white 

 spot on inner web, becoming a band on the outer feathers; a 

 broad black gorget below the white collar, lower breast and abdo- 

 men pale vinous purple ; under wing- and tail-coverts, vent, flanks, 

 and edge of wing yellow ; thigh-coverts black. 



Female. Similar, but the black gorget is interrupted in the 

 middle. 



The young have the forehead and supercilia yellowish white ; 

 the throat whitish, breast and abdomen yellowish grey. 



Lower mandible and base of upper bright smalt-blue, rest of 

 upper mandible bright green ; edges of both mandibles black ; 

 irides bright yellow; legs and feet dark but fleshy-pink; claws 

 brown (Davison). 



Length 6 ? -5 ; tail 2-2 ; wing 3-3 ; tarsus '8 ; bill from gape !!. 



Distribution. South Tenasserim as far north as Yay, Malay 

 Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. 



Genus CORYDON, Lesson, 1828. 



Bill very large, much deeper, broader at the base and more 

 hooked than that of Etirylcemus, the upper mandible more over- 

 hanging, and with the edge more convex near the gape ; but the 

 culrnen is comparatively much shorter and more prominent. Eictal 

 bristles replaced by plumules, which are situated in a nude area 

 between the eye and bill. Wings and tail rounded; wing 

 longer than tail. Tarsus distinctly scutellated in front. Sexes 

 alike. 



The plumage is mostly black. Only a single species is known. 



