HORSFIELD^S BEOADBILL. 427 
the other Broadbills, and_, like the rest^ is chiefly insectivorous. I have 
often shot these birds while catching insects on the wing^ exactly after the 
manner of a Drongo or Flycatcher/^ 
397. EUEYLiEMUS JAVANICUS. 
HORSFIELD^S BROADBILL. 
Eurylaimus javanicus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 170. Eurylaemus 
javanicus, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 107 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 125 ; Davison, S. F. v. 
p. 456 ; Hume ^ Dav. S, F. vi, p. 89 ; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 86 ; Bingham, 
S. F. ix. p. 157. 
Description, — Male. The whole head^ neck and lower plumage vinous 
purple^ darker and blackish on the forehead, crown, chin and throat, 
lighter and purer on the lower parts ; the feathers of the flanks and under 
tail-coverts tipped with yellowish ; a very narrow white streak under the 
eye ; a narrow black collar across the breast, immediately below which the 
feathers are greenish brown ; edge of the wing and under coverts bright 
yellow ; upper wing- coverts black ; back, rump, scapulars and upper tail- 
coverts mixed black and bright yellow ; primaries black, with a yellowish 
spot at their bases ; secondaries and tertiaries black, each feather having a 
long yellow spot on the outer web ; tail black, each feather with a sub- 
terminal fulvous-white spot. 
Female. Like the male, except that the narrow black pectoral band is 
absent. 
Young birds have the wing-coverts tipped with yellow, and the lower 
plumage is dashed with yellow and orange. 
Upper mandible bright blue to within one third of tip; rest of upper 
mandible pale sea-green; lower mandible pale greenish blue; both man- 
dibles edged and tipped with brownish red ; irides bright blue ; legs and 
feet fleshy ; claws brown. (Davison.) 
Length 9 inches, tail 2*9, wing 4*3, tarsus I'l, bill from gape 1*6. The 
female is smaller. 
Horsfield's Broadbill inhabits Java and Borneo and is found all the way 
up the Malay peninsula. According to Mr. Davison it occurs in Tenas- 
serim throughout its southern half, up to Amherst and Meetan. Capt. 
Bingham states that he observed it along the whole of the east face of 
the Dawna range nearly up to the mouth of the Thoungyeen river; and 
the late Colonel Lloyd is said to have sent it to Lord Tweeddale from 
the Tonghoo hills. Mr. Davison says : — ^' It feeds on insects and small 
reptiles. One that I shot had swallowed, head foremost^ a small green 
