CALYPTOMENA VIRIDIS. 
Affinitas. — Hoc genus pedibus Eurylaimo maxirae convenit; necnon aliis cha- 
racteribus illo similitudinem pra?bet. Rostri fomia tarn en Dentirostribus 
magis simile est. Multa itaque de victu, vita? more et praecipue de structura 
anatomiea mox notanda sunt, priusquam in ordinem naturalem sit dispositum 
an inter Dentirostres an Syndactylos. 
Calyptomena viridis nitens, macula utrinque ad latus nucha? fasciis alarum tribus 
obliquis remigibusque prater margin em exteriorem atris. 
Burong Tampo Pinang, of the Malays. 
Calyptomena viridis, Sir T. S. Raffles^ Cat of a Zool. Coll. made in Sumatra, Tr. 
Linn. Soc. XIII. p. 295, 1822. 
THIS very singular and beautiful bird is about six inches and a half in 
length. Its colour is a brilliant green, like that of the Parrots. The head is rather 
large, and its feathers are directed forwards from each side, in such a manner as 
nearly to conceal the bill, giving the face a very peculiar appearance. A little 
above and before the eyes, the feathers are of a deep velvet- black at their base, and 
only tipped with green ; and there is a similar spot of black immediately over the 
cars. The wings are scarcely longer than the body, green, but crossed on the 
coverts by three velvet-black bands ; the primary feathers, as well as the whole under- 
side of the wings, are dusky approaching to black, with the exception of the outer 
margins of some, which are edged with green. The tail is short, rounded, composed 
of ten feathers, which are green above, and blucish-black below. The whole of 
the under parts are green : this colour is lightest on the sides of the neck, and round 
the eyes. The bill is short, wide, much depressed at the base, deeply cleft, and 
hooked at the point. Nostrils oval at the base of the bill, and concealed by the 
filiform feathers that project over them. The eyes are rather large; the irides 
blueish. Legs blucish-black : a few feathers come down over the upper part of the 
tarsi. Feet gressorial j outer toe not much shorter than the middle one, with which 
it is united as far as the last joint 
" The stomach of this bird contained nothing but vegetable substances, chiefly 
wild grains. It is found in the retired parts of the forests of Singapore, and the 
Ulterior of Sumatra; and being of the colour of the leaves, and perching on the 
higher branches of the trees, it is not easily procurable. The female does not differ 
in appearance from the male. The name of Calyptomena, (a xahvmw, velo) is pro- 
posed for this genus." 
