4.28 BIRDS OE BRITISH BURMAH. 
lizard over four inclies in length This species, E. ochromelas, and 
C. macrorhynchus have a very peculiar note, not easy to express in vrords, 
but once heard not soon forgotten. It consists of a few single notes 
uttered at short intervals, and ending in a sort of rolling metallic-sounding 
chir-r-r-r. Though the note of all three species is of precisely the same 
type, yet they are notably distinct/'' 
A nest found by this observer at Bankasoon in March was a massive 
structure composed of moss^ leaves and twigs, and suspended from the tip 
of a tall bamboo overhanging a stream. It contained two eggs, which 
were white, speckled with rusty brown. 
Genus CYMBOEHYNCHUS, Vig. 
398. CYMBORHYNCHUS MACRORHYNCHUS. 
THE BLACK-AND-RED BROADBILL. 
Todus macrorhjmchus, Grn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 446. Cymbirhynchus malac- 
censis, Salvad. Atti R. Ac. Sc. Tor. ix. p. 425 ; Oates, S. F. iii. p. 336. Cym- 
borh3niclius macrorhynclius, Salvad. JJcc. Born. p. 109; Bl. 8f Wald. 
B. Burm. p, 126 ; Davison, S. F. v. p. 457 ; Hvme 8j- Dav. S. F. vi. p. 92 ; Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 86. 
Description. — Male and female. Chin and upper throat, a broad pectoral 
band, lores, cheeks, head, neck, back and wing-coverts black ; rump and 
upper tail-coverts, the ear-coverts and space between the throat and the 
pectoral band, and the whole under plumage rich crimson, dashed on 
the belly with rich golden yellow ; wings black, the basal portions of the 
inner webs of the feathers white ; scapulars with the inner webs black and 
the outer white ; tail black, with a white spot on the inner web of all but 
the central pair of feathers, the amount of white spotting varying much 
and being obsolete in some specimens ; under wing-coverts blackish ; 
axillaries yellowish white ; edge of wing bright golden yellow. 
The young bird has the red of the rump mottled with brown ; the wing- 
coverts are tipped with whitish, and the chin and throat are greyish. 
Upper mandible and a bordering along the edge of the lower mandible 
brilliant blue ; remainder of the latter yellowish ; edges of both trans- 
parent white ; irides emerald-green, shot with gold ; legs and feet ultra- 
marine-blue ; claws horny. [Bingham.) 
Length 11 inches, tail 4*2, wing 5*4, tarsus 1*1, bill from gape 1*6. 
The majority of specimens of this species from Borneo are characterized 
by an absence of white on the tail-feathers ; Count Salvadori restricts 
the name of C. macrorhynchus to this race, and has named the birds from 
