CALYPTOMENA VIRIDIS. 



AffiNITAs. — Hoc genus pedibus Eurylaimo maxime convenit; necnon aliis cha- 

 racteribus illo similitudinem praebet. Rostri forma tamen Dentirostribus 

 magis simile est. Multa itaque de victu, vitae more et prjecipue de structura 

 anatomica mox notanda sunt, priusquara in ordinem naturalem sit dispositum 

 an inter Dentirostres an Syndactylos. 



Calyptomena viridis nitens, macula utrinque ad latus nuchae fasciis alarum tribus 



obliquis remigibusque praeter marginem exteriorem atris. 

 Burong Tampo Pinang, of the Malays. 

 Calyptomena viridis, Sir T. S. Raffles's Cat. of a Zool. Coll. made in Sumatra, Tr. 



Linn. Soc. XIII. p. 295, 1822. 



" This very singular and beautiful bird is about six inches and a half in 

 length. Its colour is a brilliant green, like that of the Parrots. The head is rather 

 large, and its feathers are directed forwards from each side, in such a manner as 

 nearly to conceal the bill, giving the face a very peculiar appearance. A little 

 above and before the eyes, the feathers are of a deep velvet-black at their base, and 

 only tipped with green ; and there is a similar spot of black immediately over the 

 ears. The wings are scarcely longer than the body, green, but crossed on the 

 coverts by three velvet-black bands ; the primary feathers, as well as the whole under- 

 side of the wings, are dusky approaching to black, with the exception of the outer 

 margins of some, which are edged with green. The tail is short, rounded, composed 

 of ten feathers, which are green above, and blueish-black below. The whole of 

 the under parts are green : this colour is lightest on the sides of the neck, and round 

 the eyes. The bill is short, wide, much depressed at the base, deeply cleft, and 

 hooked at the point. Nostrils oval at the base of the bill, and concealed by the 

 filiform feathers that project over them. The eyes are rather large; the irides 

 blueish. Legs blueish-black : a few feathers come down over the upper part of the 

 tarsi. Feet gressorial ; outer toe not much shorter than the middle one, with which 

 it is united as far as the last joint. 



" The stomach of this bird contained nothing but vegetable substances, chiefly 

 wild grains. It is found in the retired parts of the forests of Singapore, and the 

 interior of Sumatra; and being of the colour of the leaves, and perching ;u the 

 higher branches of the trees, it is not easily procurable. The female does not differ 

 in appearance from the male. The name of Calyptomena, (a v.aXvnru, velo) is pro- 

 posed for this genus." 



