THE LONG-TAILED BROADBILL. 
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It is only in the morning or evening that they seem at all active. 
During the day they remain seated quietly about the tops of the trees, and 
are excessively difficult to detect. They are not at all shy, but at the same 
time not stupid, like the Broadbills, with which I may remark that they 
have nothing in common, neither habits, food nor note.'^ 
Genus PSARISOMUS, Swcdns. 
393. PSAEISOMUS DALHOUSI^. 
THE LONG-TAILED BROADBILL. 
Eurylaimus dalliousiae, Jameson, Edinh. Neiu Phil. Journ. xviii. p. 389. Psari- 
somus dalhousiae, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 236 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 52 ; Bl. ^ Wald. 
B. Burm. p. 126 ; Wald. Ibis, 1875, p. 460 ; Hume S) Dav. S. F. vi. p. 88 ; Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 86 ; Bine/ham, S. F. viii. p. 193, ix. p. 156. Psarisomus assi- 
milis, Hume, S. F. iii. p. 53. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead, top of head, nape and ear- 
coverts black ; a large patch on the crown and a small one on the nape 
bright blue ; a line over the bill, the lores, cheeks, chin, throat and a line 
on either side of the neck, running up to the blue spot on the nape, bright 
yellow; a spot over the ear-coverts yellow; whole upper plumage, the 
wing-coverts, tertiaries and the outer webs of the secondaries green ; 
inner webs of the secondaries and primaries dark brown, the first eight 
primaries with a white spot ; outer webs of the primaries blue in the 
middle and green elsewhere ; lower plumage dull green, washed with blue 
in places ; tail above blue, below black. 
The young bird has the head green and wants the blue patches. 
The general colour of the bill is green ; the anterior half of the culmen 
bluish ; the middle portion of the lower mandible dusky orange ; and on 
the edge of the upper mandible there is a dusky patch ; inside of mouth 
flesh-colour; iris brown; eyelids greenish; legs dull greenish; claws 
bluish horny. 
Length I0'5 inches, tail 5, wing 4*1, tarsus LI, bill from gape 1*3. The 
female is of much the same size. 
The Long-tailed Broadbill occurs in many parts of British Burmah. Mr. 
Blyth records it from Arrakan. I observed it in Pegu on the hills near 
the frontier between Thayetmyo and Tonghoo, and Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay 
procured it on the Karin hills east of Tonghoo at an elevation of 3000 
feet. In Tenasserim Mr. Davison met with it on and round Mooleyit 
mountain only ; but Capt. Bingham appears to have found it common in 
the Thoungyeen valley. 
