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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Family EURYLiEMID^. 
Genus CALYPTOMENA, Baffl. 
392. CALYPTOMENA VIRIDIS. 
THE GREEN BROADBILL. 
Calyptomena viridis, Maffi. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 295; Salvad, Ucc. Born. 
p. 106 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 124 ; Sume Sf Dav. S. F. vi. p. 86 ; Hume, S. F. viii. 
p. 86. 
Description. — Male. The whole plumage glistening green^ paling on the 
abdomen ; a small spot just in front of the eye yellow ; a broad line from 
this spot to the front of the head^ but concealed in great measure by the 
overlapping green tips of the adjacent feathers^ black ; a spot behind the 
ear-coverts also black ; wings dark brown or black ; upper wing-coverts 
the same brilliant green as the body_, with three broad black bands across 
them; under wing-coverts black. 
Female. Green all over_, but not brilliant as in the male_, and paler on 
the lower plumage ; the spot in front of the eye is yellowish green ; and 
the black spots on the head and the bars on the wings are wanting. - 
The young bird is like the female^ but of a duller colour. 
The legs and feet vary, but are generally pale dirty or horny green, 
sometimes with a bluish tinge, sometimes a pinkish-grey tinge ; the irides 
are very dark brown, appearing black at times ; the gape is always more or 
less orange ; the tip of the upper mandible and the lower mandible are light 
reddish horny or brownish orange or fleshy, shaded with orange towards 
the gape ; the upper mandible, except the tip, varies from pale horny to 
brown, dark horny brown and black, or almost black. {Davison.) 
Length 7' 5 inches, tail 2*1, wing 4*2, tarsus '8, bill from gape 1"1. 
The female is rather larger than the male. 
The Green Broadbill occurs in Tenasserim from Amherst down to 
Malewoon. 
It is found in the Malay peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo ; and Dr. 
Tiraud states that he met with it in Cochin China. 
Writing of this bird Mr. Davison says : — This lovely bird occurs in 
Tenasserim from Amherst southwards. It keeps to the forest, preferring 
moderately thin tree-jungle and frequenting the tops of the trees singly or 
in pairs, or in small parties ; feeding so far as I have observed, and I have 
dissected numbers, entirely on fruit. 
