EURYLAIMUS JAVANICUS. 



crest. The ground of violet is variegated here with deep brown ; in a certain light 

 also it presents a reddish lustre. That part of the forehead which surrounds the 

 bill is nearly black ; behind the nostrils, near the gape, a few vibrissse are pro- 

 truded, and the margin of the lower mandible is surrounded by stiff plumes of a 

 dark colour, extending towards its base. The throat and the neck anteriorly have 

 with the violet a plumbeous lustre, and on the breast and belly this colour is 

 considerably diluted. The vent is yellow. The brown colour of the plumes which 

 cover the upper part of the neck, becomes darker towards the back, and assumes a 

 sooty tint. The wings above are very deep blackish brown, more intense near the 

 shoulder, and lighter towards the extremity. A yellow streak, formed by a series 

 of narrow plumes, between the coverts and secondary quill-feathers, passes longitu- 

 dinally along the wing, and meets, near its lower termination, an interrupted 

 transverse band of the same colour, caused by a very small semilunar mark, on the 

 exterior margin of the secondary quill-feathers, near their lower extremity. The 

 quill-feathers are white from their base to about one-half of their length ; but the 

 coverts of the wing are so disposed, that they leave a part of the base open, which 

 appears as an irregular white spot on the exterior margin. The wings vinderneath, 

 from the axillae towards the shoulder, are covered with yellow plumes, which appear 

 in an exterior border of that colour. Below this, somewhat interiorly, is a brown 

 spot, made up of very minute plumes, closely applied to the surface of the wing. 

 The sides of the back are of an intensely brown colour ; in the middle it is variegated 

 with plumes, on which portions of black and yellow are unequally distributed. 

 The coverts of the tail are lengthened, black at the base, and yellow towards the 

 extremity, so that the uropygium appears yellow. From the lower part of the 

 back a broad black spot stretches towards the hypochondrise. The tail consists of 

 twelve feathers : — the two intermediate ones are entirely black ; the four next in order 

 on each side are of the same colour, having near the extremity a white transverse band ; 

 on the two exterior feathers this band is near the middle, and rather broader. The 

 bill is reddish brown at the base ; towards the extremity both mandibles are irregu- 

 larly variegated, and striped : in the upper mandible the culmen, or back, is uniformly 

 of a yellowish colour. The cutting edges are intensely black, and shining. The 

 tarsi and toes have a dusky yellowish hue, and the claws are brown, inclining to black. 



On the Plate of Illustrations, in letter P. and Q., the bill and foot of Eurylaimus 

 javanicus are represented, as far as is necessary for elucidating the generic description. 



