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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
It is diffused througli the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal and the Himalayas 
from Assam to the Dhoon. P. psittacinus, from Sumatra^ is probably 
identical with the present specieso 
This Broadbill inhabits the thickest forests and goes abont singly or in 
pairs. It feeds entirely on insects and captures them either on the leaves 
of trees or by seizing them in the air. It is not a shy bird. Capt. Bingham 
found the nests of this species in Tenasserim in April; they were sus- 
pended from the branches of a very thorny tree and could not be reached. 
Genus SERILOPHUS, Swains. 
394. SERILOPHUS LUNATUS. 
GOULD^S BROADBILL. 
Eurylaimus lunatus, Gould, Trans. Zool. Soe. i. p. 176, t. 25. Serilophus lu- 
natus, Bl. 8f Wald. B. Burm. p. 125; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 53; Davison, S. F. 
V. p. 455 ; Hume 8f Dav: S. F. vi. p. 89 ; Hu7ne, S. F. viii. p. 86 ; Oates, S. F. 
viii. p. 164. 
Description. — Male. Forehead, head and nape pale grey ; lores and ear- 
coverts the same, but slightly rufous ; a broad supercilium reaching to the 
nape black ; the whole lower plumage greyish white ; back and scapulars 
greyish brown ; rump, tertiaries and upper tail-coverts chestnut ; upper 
wing-coverts black ; the lower ones the same ; tail black, the three outer 
pairs of feathers broadly tipped with white ; the next pair entirely black, 
but sometimes with a small white spot on the inner web near the tip ; 
primaries and secondaries black ; the third and fourth broadly tipped with 
white ; the basal half of the outer webs of all blue ; the inner webs of all 
with a large white spot ; and, beginning at the sixth primary, the tips of 
the inner webs of all chestnut. 
Female. Like the male, but with three or four narrow silvery white bands 
across the breast. 
Bill light blue, paler on the culmen ; gape, base of lower mandible and 
junction of the upper mandible with the forehead orange ; mouth orange ; 
eyelids greenish yellow ; iris dark brown ; legs greenish orange ; claws 
light blue. 
Length 7 inches, tail 2*8, wing 3*4, tarsus '8, bill from gape '92. The 
female is of the same size. 
Gould^s Broadbill has not yet been found outside the limits of British 
