CYMBORHYNClItlS. 7 



Genus CYMBORHYNCHUS, Vigors, 1830. 



Bill not differing much in form from that of Eurylcemus, but 

 narrower, with a somewhat higher culmen, and with the upper 

 mandible straight-edged, not overhanging. The nostrils are 

 elongate, and open in a longitudinal depression a considerable 

 distance from the frontal feathers, about 5 to 3 the length of the 

 bill from the base. Rictal bristles long. Tarsi indistinctly scu- 

 tellated in front. Coloration above mostly black, below deep 

 crimson. 



Two species are known, ranging from Arrakan to Borneo. 



Key to the Species. 



Wing about 4 ; no red spots on tertiaries . . C. macrorhynchus, p. 7. 

 Wing about 3-6 ; red terminal spots on ter- 

 tiaries C. affinis, p. 8. 



940. Cymborhynchiis macrorhynchus. The Black-and-red 

 Broadbill. 



Todus macrorhynchus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i, p. 446 (1788). 



Todus nasutus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i, p. 268 (1790). 



Cymborhynchus macrorhynchus, Gray, Gen. B. i, p. 66 ; Horsf. 

 8f M. Cat. p. 119; Blyth, Birds Burma, p. 126 j Stoliczka, J. A. 

 S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, p. 285 ; Davison, S. F. v, p. 457 ; Hume #> 

 Dav. S. F. vi, p. 92 ; Hume, Cat. no. 139 quint. ; Sharpe, Ibis, 

 1876, p. 48 ; 1877, p. 22 ; 1879, p. 264 ; Bingham, S. F. ix, p. 157 ; 

 Oates, B. B. i, p. 428 ; Sclater, Cat. B. M. xiv, p. 468 ; Hartert, 

 J.f. Orn. 1889, pp. 358, 393 ; Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, 

 p. 294. 



Cymbirhynchus nasutus, Vigors, Mem. Raffles, p. 654 (1830) ; 

 Blyth, J.A.S. B. xv, p. 311 ; id. Cat. p. 195. 



Cymborhynchus malaccensis, Salvad. Atti R. Ac. Sc. Tor. ix, p. 425 

 (1874) ; Oates, S. F. iii, p. 336. 



Coloration. Upper parts except the scapulars, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts black ; chin, upper throat, and a broad pectoral band 

 also black ; a white longitudinal band on each side of the back, 

 formed by the outer half of the scapulars ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts, ear-coverts and the throat bet ween them, lower breast, 

 abdomen, flanks, and lower tail-coverts deep crimson, sometimes 

 mixed with orange on the belly ; wings black, the edge orange- 

 yellow, under wing-coverts in part, and basal portion of inner 

 web of most wing- feathers white, axillaries yellowish white ; tail 

 black, a variable number of the outer feathers with a white sub- 

 terminal spot on the inner web. 



Young dusky instead of black, white spots on tips of wing- 

 coverts, rump mixed red and black ; lower plumage dark brown 

 with traces of transverse bars. 



Upper mandible and a bordering along the edge of the 

 lower mandible brilliant blue, remainder of the latter yellowish, 



