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Burmali. I met with it abundantly in the evergreen forests o£ the Pegu 
hills near the northern frontier of Pegu^ and I also observed it in the 
immediate neighbourhood of the town of Pegu, where I found the nest. 
The late Colonel Lloyd sent it to the Marquis of Tweeddale from a locality 
thirty miles north of Tonghoo_, and Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay found it in 
Karennee at an elevation of from 3000 to 4000 feet. 
Mr. Davison observed it in Tenasserim quite down toNwalabo mountain 
and the neighbourhood of Tavoy, and Capt. Bingham states that it is very 
common in the whole Thoungyeen valley. 
This Broadbill occurs in small flocks_, is strictly arboreal and is apparently 
restricted to dense forests or to very well-wooded localities. It is of a very 
stupid disposition, allowing an observer to approach quite close. I found 
the nest in May near Pegu town. It was a spherical structure suspended 
from the branch of a tree not far from the ground, and was composed of 
coarse grass_, vegetable fibres and the outer membrane of the stalks of 
elephant-grass. The entrance, a small hole at the side, was protected by a 
rude porch, and the exterior of the nest was adorned with cocoons, excreta 
of caterpillars and pieces of bark. The eggs, four in number, were white, 
marked with purple and rusty brown. Mr. Davison found nests of this 
species in Tenasserim from April to July. 
395. SERILOPHUS RUBROPYGIUS. 
HODGSON'S BROADBILL. 
Raya rubropygia, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. viii. p. 36. Serilophus rubropygia, Jerd. 
B. Ind. i. p. 238. Serilophus rubropygius, Bl. B. Burm. p, 125 ; Hume, S. 
F. iii. p. 63, viii. p. 86. 
Description. — Male. Like S. lunatus, but differing in the following 
particulars : — The forehead, head and nape are dark iron-grey ; the super- 
ciliary streaks are narrow and inconspicuous ; the amount of white on the 
tail-feathers is much less ; the blue on the outer webs of the primaries is 
present only on the second to the fifth ; the white tips to the third and 
fourth primaries are obsolete ; only the primaries, beginning as in S. lunatus 
at the sixth, are tipped with chestnut on the inner webs, none of the 
secondaries having this tip; most of the quills, except the first five 
primaries, have a white spot near the tip of the outer web. 
Female. Difi'ers from the male in having a white collar_, as in the female 
of ^. lunatus. 
Bill soft blue ; orbital skin yellow; irides brown; legs yellowish green; 
nails bluish. [Jerdon.) 
