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426 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Length 7*25 inclies, tail 3, wing 3' 5, bill at front -55, tarsus '9. 
(^Jerdon) 
Hodgson^s Broadbill is stated by Mr. Blyth to have occurred in 
Arrakan. 
It extends through the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal to the eastern 
portion of the Himalayas and is found as far as Nipal. 
Genus EUEYL^MUS, Eorsf. 
396. EURYL^MUS OCHROMELAS. 
THE BLACK-AND-YELLOW BROADBILL. 
Eurylaimus ochromalus, Raffl. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 297. Eurylaemus 
ochromelas, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 108 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 125 ; Hume 8c Dav. 
S. F. vi. p. 91 ; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 86. 
Description, — Male. The whole head^ neck, upper back and a pectoral band 
black ; space between this pectoral band and the throat white_, continued 
as a collar round the neck; breast and abdomen pale claret-colour; vent, 
sides of the body and under tail-coverts bright yellow ; back yellow, each 
feather margined with black; a mesial band down the back, rump and 
upper tail-coverts bright yellow, the sides of these parts black ; tail black, 
each feather having a subterminal yellowish- white spot ; primaries black, 
with a small portion of the outer webs near the base yellowish white; 
secondaries and tertiaries black, with a bright yellow streak on the outer 
web of each ; lesser wing-coverts mixed yellow and black ; greater coverts 
black. 
The female differs in having the black pectoral band interrupted in the 
centre. 
The young have the forehead and a supercilium yellow and the chin and 
throat whitish. 
Legs and feet dark but fleshy pink ; claws brown ; irides bright 
yellow ; lower mandible, and upper mandible to 0*25 beyond nostril, bright 
smalt-blue ; rest of upper mandible bright green ; edge of both mandibles 
along the commissure black. {Davison.) 
Length 6*5 inches, tail 2*3, wing 3*2, tarsus '8, bill from gape 1*1. The 
female is of much the same size. 
The Black-and-yellow Broadbill, which is found all through the Malay 
peninsula, extending into Sumatra and Borneo, is stated by Mr. Davison 
to occur in Tenasserim from the south up to Yea, but to be uncommon. 
It is probably a constant resident. He says : — ^' In habits it resembles 
