96 i. TODY. 



26.— JAVAN TODY. 



Eurylaimus Javanicus, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 170. Horsfield. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill shorter than the head, horn -col our, 

 very broad at the base, and attenuated at the end ; gape very wide, 

 furnished with a few hairs at the base, at the side of which the 

 nostrils are placed, roundish in shape and open ; the head and under 

 parts of the body are vinaceous ; back and wings brown, with yellow 

 lines in the middle of the former, and the latter varied irregularly 

 with the same colour; middle quills marked outwardly with a spot 

 of white ; the first greater quill shortest, second and fourth equal, 

 and the third the longest of all ; tail black, the two middle feathers 

 plain, the adjoining one marked with a white band on the inner, 

 and the exterior with the same on both webs, near the end ; legs of a 

 moderate size ; toes salient. 



Such is nearly the description of a bird inhabiting Java, which 

 appears to differ considerably from the Broad-billed species, although 

 at first sight may seem to be much like it, 



27— SUMATRAN TODY. 



SIZE about that of a Thrush in the body. Bill very broad, 

 not greatly differing from that of the Broad-billed species, at the 

 end pointed, and a little bent downwards, colour black ; plumage in 

 general black, striped with yellow on the upper parts and wings ; 

 the tail rounded at the end, consists of twelve feathers, the two 

 middle ones plain black ; the others the same for half the length, 

 beyond this more or less yellow to the end ; legs slender, black. 



Inhabits Sumatra and Java. This seems to coincide with the 

 last in respect to the bill, though different in the plumage. 



