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nearly hatched ; they were 1 J inch in lengthy in colour white, but much 
stained with brown matter. 
" The bird appears to build its own nest, and certainly hatches its own 
egg ; for on two occasions during the last few days I have stood close by 
and watched it sitting. It did not utter any note or cry, not even when 
disturbed from its nest.^^ 
Genus HHAMPHOCOCCYX, Cab, et Hein. 
607. RHAMPHOCOCCYX ERYTHROGNATHUS. 
THE GREATER RED-BILLED MALKOHA. 
Phoenicophaeus erythrognathus, Hartl. Verz. Mus. Brem. p. 95. Rhampho- 
coccyx erythrognathus, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 74; Hume, JS. F. viii. p. 89; 
Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 393. Phoenicophaes erythrognathus, Bl. B. Burm. 
p. 81. Phoenicophaus erythrognathus, ZTwme ^ Bav. S. F. vi. p. 165. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead, crown, nape, ear-coverts, 
a mandibular stripe and the angle of the chin ashy grey ; the whole upper 
plumage, including the wings, metallic green ; the primaries tinged with 
blue ; lower plumage and sides of neck chestnut, becoming tinged with 
blackish more and more till the vent and thighs are smoky black ; under 
tail-coverts dull ferruginous ; tail metallic green, the terminal third of the 
feathers being deep ferruginous ; under wing-coverts greenish. 
Legs and feet dark plumbeous, or dark bluish or plumbeous green ; facial 
skin deep red; lower mandible to beyond the gonys, and upper mandible 
at base below the nostril, dark maroon-red ; rest of upper mandible pale 
green; rest of lower mandible green, generally darker than the upper 
mandible, sometimes shaded with dusky ; irides turquoise- or pale blue in 
the male, bright yellow in the female. {Davison.) 
Length 19 inches, tail 10*5, wing 6*8, tarsus 1-65, bill from gape I'8. 
The female is rather smaller. 
The Greater Red-billed Malkoha has been found in Tenasserim by 
Mr. Davison. It appears to be very common in the southernmost 
portions, getting rarer northwards and apparently not occurring north of 
the Yea river. 
It inhabits the Malay peninsula, extending into Sumatra, Bangka and 
Borneo. 
Mr. Mottley, as quoted by Dr. Sclater in the P. Z. S. 1863, remarks of this 
bird in Borneo : — A rather common bird about Martapora in the dry 
