THE BLACK A^5D RED BROADBILL 
sny at all for I saw their nests made in the trees of a road, 
another at the outskirts of a village overhanging a pond. The 
nest is globular with its entrance a hole on one side. If the 
bird is sitting on its eggs the blue and yellow bill is seen before 
the entrance hole. The nest is attached to a thin twig, some- 
times not higher than three metres from the ground*'. 
The eggs are whitish with brownish markings. 
This is an insectivorous bird. 
Another broadbill is not uncommon on Pulau Ubin. This 
is the green broadbill, gaper or tody {Calyptomena viridis) a 
fat, short -tailed, large-headed little bird, grass-green with 
bJack markings. 
Ridley wrote of this species with reference to the Botanic 
Gardens: "May at times be seen in the denser wooded spots, 
quickly passing from thicket to thicket, and concealing itself 
among the green leaves". 
