6 PASSERES 
and allies, a group of Papuan Flycatchers. Otherwise they do not differ essentially from the 
genus Eurylaimus. The sexes differ in the colour of the undersurface which is vinaceous-grey 
in the males, white in the females. 
Geographical Distribution. Two forms, inhabiting some of the Philippine Islands, are 
known. 
Ls = Upperside slateprey: 3 1% fy Hn Sy es ee) eS oere 
2. — Upperside vinous brown S. SAMARENSIS. 
1. Sarcophanops steerii Sharpe (Plate, Fig. 6.). Philippine Islands 
Sarcophanops steeri Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. (2),Vol.1, p.344, pl.54 (18). (Dinagat, Mindanao, 
Sarcophanps steerei Sharpe, cf. Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. 14, p. 462 (1888). Basilan). 
2 Sarcophanops samarensis Steere. Philippine Islands 
Sarcophanops samarensis, Steere, List Birds & Mamm. Philipp. p. 23 (1890). (Samar, Leyte). 
5. GENUS PSARISOMUS SwalINnson 
Psarisomus Swainson, Classif. of Birds, Vol. 2, p. 261 (1837) (type of the genus P. dalhouste); 
cf. Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. 14, p. 457 (1888). 
Synonyms : Crossodera Gould, Icones Avium, pl. 1 (1837). — Raya Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. 
Bengal, Vol. 8, p. 36 (1839). — Szuius Hodgson, op. cit., Vol. 10, p. 27 (1841). — Szmornis, 
Hodgson, Gray’s Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844). 
Characters. This gaily coloured group differs from all the rest of the Eury/@mide in its 
very strongly graduated, long tail with rather narrow rectrices, while the nostrils are rounded 
and basal, as usual, but in a rather large groove and partly hidden by small and stiff frontal 
plumes. The lateral pair of rectrices is only two fifths the length of the central ones. The 
colour is beautiful : green (much lighter underneath), yellow throat, black pileum with a blue 
central patch and greenish yellow patches of elongated and narrow feathers behind the eyes. 
The nest is rather long, inside lined with fresh leaves, and is remarkable for the large porch, 
wich overhangs the entrance-hole. The eggs are spotted. These birds catch insects on the 
wing, like other Eurylemid@, especially Orthoptera. Three forms, undoubtedly subspecies of 
one species, can be distinguished. 
Geographical Distribution. From the Himalaya mountains through Assam, Burma, 
the mountains of the Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. 
1. — Green on underside vicher, darker, wing slightly longer, tips of 
feathers on sides of neck more yellow. . . . . . . . . FP. DALHOUSI# DALHOUSIA. 
2. — Green on underside equally rich and dark as m 1, but wing 
slightly shorter, tips of feathers on sides of neck more white . . WP. DALHOUSIE PSITTACINUS. 
3. — Green on underside paler, move white towards the bases of the 
feathers, wing as short as in 2, tips of feathers on sides of neck 
much more white than yellow. . . . . . . . . . . DP. DALHOUSI BORNEENSIS, subsp.nov, 7 
1. Psarisomus dalhousiz dalhousiz (Jameson) (Plate, Fig. 7.). Himalaya Mountains, 
Eurylaimus dalhousie Jameson, Edinb. New Phys. Journ. Vol. 18, p. 589 (1835). Assam. Manipur, 
Psarisomus dalhousie (Jameson), cf. Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. 14, p. 458 (1888). Cachar, Burma (1). 
(1) Burmese birds have been separated as P. assimilis by Gould. The differences he mentions may be found to exist ifa 
good series could be compared. 
