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edges of both transparent white ; irides emerald-green, shot with 



fold ; legs and feet ultramarine-blue ; claws horny (Bingham). 

 nside of mouth bright blue (Davison). 



Length 9*5 ; tail 3-5 ; wing 4 ; tarsus '95 ; bill from gape 1*25. 

 Females rather smaller. 



Distribution. From Tenasserim through Siam, Cambodia, and 

 the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. This Broadbill 

 was obtained as far north as the Dawna range near Kokarit, east 

 of Moulmein, by Binghain. 



Habits, fyc. Similar to those of Eurylcemus, except that this 

 species, according to Davison, is found in gardens and near villages. 

 It lives entirely on insects. It breeds in Tenasserim from April 

 to June, making the usual large globular BroadbilPs nest of grass, 

 roots, &c., suspended to the end of a bough, and containing 3 or 

 4 eggs varying from white to salmon-buff in colour, and densely 

 spotted or speckled, especially about the larger end, with black or 

 brownish red. The eggs measure about 1-06 by '75. 



941. Cymborhynchus affinis. The Arrakan Black-and-red 

 Broadbill. 



Cymborhynchus affinis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv, p. 312 (1846) ; id. 

 Cat. p. 195 ; id. Birds Burma, p. 126 ; Gates, S. F. iii, p. 336 ; x, 

 p. 188 ; id. B. B. i, p. 429 ; Hume, Cat. no. 139 quat. ; Sclater, 

 Cat. B. M. xiv, p. 470. 



Coloration. Similar to the last except that the red of the rump is 

 mixed with black ; there are always white subterminal spots on all 

 tail-feathers except the middle pair, and these spots become bars 

 on the three outer rectrices on each side ; the white at the base of 

 the primaries appears from beneath the outer wing-coverts, and 

 each tertiary has a long red spot at the end. 



Length 8*2 ; tail 3 ; wing 3'6 ; tarsus *86 ; bill from gape 1. 



Distribution. Arrakan from about lat. 19 southward to Cape 

 Negrais, also the Irrawaddy delta as far east as Rangoon. Nothing 

 is known of the habits. 



Genus SEBILOPHUS, Swainson, 1837. 



Bill very much smaller than in Eurylcemus, sides of upper 

 mandible straight, not overhanging. Tail much rounded. Second- 

 aries and inner primaries truncated, and emarginate at the ends 

 of the shafts. Eictal bristles present. Nostrils and tarsi as in 

 Eurylcemus. 



Plumage soft, greyish or brownish above, ashy below ; a white 

 gorget in females only. Two species, ranging from the Himalayas 

 to Tenasserim. 



Key to tlie Species. 



Head above pale greyish brown S. lunatus, p. 9. 



Head above dark ashy grey iS. rubripygius, p 



