p. cancromus ofProfessorTemminck, differing only from this 

 bird in having a yellow crest, leads me to believe they are 

 sexes of the same species ; this being the female bird. The 

 tail in the male appears to be somewhat longer, but this 

 may be an error of delineation, and the description has not 

 yet been published. 



The figure is of the natural size, and below is an outline 

 of the bill and nostrils ; these latter are depressed, and the 

 base covered with thickset feathers ; the aperture is naked, 

 round, and piercing the membrane in a lateral direction, 

 midway between the ridge and margin of the bill, and at 

 the end of the nasal membrane. The plumage above fulvous 

 brown : darker, and tinged with reddish on the margin of the 

 quills and tips of the wing covers : spurious quills and 

 stripe be leath the eyes black : the upper part of the ears 

 are also black, the lower half whitish yellow ; chin and 

 throat whitish ; breast and body beneath pale fulvous brown ; 

 tail remarkably short, and not projecting beyond the wings ; 

 upper mandible black, lower white. 



Since the publication of the remarks on this genus at 

 Plate 14, a further consideration of the subject induces me to 

 adopt the opinion of Professor Temminck, in placing the Todus 

 Flatyrlii/nchos, Gm., and its allies, under a distinct genus ; 

 or, in other words, of detaching from this group the second 

 division annexed to my former definition of this genus. Still, 

 however, the close affinities I have there pointed out, render 

 the generic situation of several of these birds very doubtful ; 

 because the transition from one to the other is so gradual 

 that even the most accurate set of generic characters, founded 

 on the bill, will not clearly define the limits between the 

 Platyrhynchus and Muscipeta. Their anatomy might do so, 

 but on this subject we are quite ignorant. 



I can gather nothing from the characters which Dr. 

 Horsfield has given in the Linneean Transactions of his new 

 genus Euri/laimos ; which does not perfectly agree with 

 those of Platyrhynchiis. It appears to have precisely the 

 same formation of bill, nostrils, legs, &c. as 1*. cancromus, 

 but in a higher state of development ; thus strengthening 

 the opinion I have above expressed. 



