12 EURYL^EMID.E. 



on inner web of each primary near the base ; tail blue above, black 

 below ; lower plumage from breast bright bluish green. Female 

 the same. In some skins the spot behind the eye is greenish 

 yellow or white ; the collar, too, has in many birds a satin-white 

 hinder border. 



Bill green in general, but sometimes brownish yellow, gape and 

 tip bluish or whitish; iris brown; orbits yellow or greenish; legs 

 and feet dull light green ; claws horny. 



Young birds have the whole head green or greenish. 



Length 10-5 ; tail 5 ; wing 4-1 ; tarsus I'l ; bill from gape 1*3. 



Distribution. Throughout the Himalayas as far west as Dehra 

 Dun and Mussooree, from a low level to about 6000 feet elevation ; 

 also Assam, Manipur, Cachar, and Burma generally, in hilly parts 

 of the country, and through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and 

 Borneo. 



Habits, <$fc. This beautiful Broad bill is found usually solitary or 

 in pairs, but sometimes in small flocks, and is restricted to thick 

 forest. It feeds entirely on insects, which it sometimes captures 

 on the wing. The nests (fig. 1) are like those of other Broadbills, 

 large globular structures of grass, roots, fibres, &c., with a lateral 

 entrance, which is sometimes protected by an overhanging portico. 

 This nest is suspended from a fine twig ; the egg-cavity is lined 

 with green leaves ; the eggs, 3 to 5 in number, are laid in April 

 or May, and are of two types the one pure white and glossy, the 

 other white or pinkish, blotched, chiefly about the large end, with 

 red and pale reddish purple, and almost without gloss. Average 

 size 1 by '7. 



Genus CALYPTOMENA, Baffles, 1822. 



Bill smaller than in other Eurylcemidce, and the culmen higher. 

 Nostrils at the base of the beak, and concealed, as is the greater 

 part of the upper mandible, by the feathers of the lores, which are 

 large and directed forward. JS"o rictal bristles. Tail short and 

 nearly square. Tarsi distinctly scutellated in front. Plumage 

 harsh, bright green nearly throughout. 



This is the most aberrant member of the group, and has been 

 by many writers placed in a different family or subfamily. Three 

 species are now known, two of which are peculiar to Borneo. 



945. Calyptomena viridis. The Green Broadbill. 



Calyptomena viridis, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, p. 295 (1822) ; 

 myth, Cat. p. 196; id. Birds Burm. p. 124 ; Horsf. 8f M. Cat. p. 120 ; 

 Stolictka. J. A. 8. B. xxxix, pt. 2, p. 284 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, 

 pp. 86, 499; Hume, Cat. no. 137 bis ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 422 ; Sclater, 

 Cat. B. M. xiv, p. 456 ; Oates in Hume's N. # E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 288. 



Coloration. Male. Bright green throughout, slightly paler on 

 the abdomen ; a minute yellow spot in front of the eye ; sides of 

 forehead (greatly concealed by loral feathers), a large spot behind 



