EUItYLAIMUS JAVANICUS. 
crest, The ground of violet is variegated here with deep brown ; in a certain light 
also it presents a reddish lustre. That part , of the forehead which surrounds the 
bill is nearly black ; behind the nostrils, near the gape, a few vibrissa are pro- 
truded, and the margin of the lower mandible is surrounded by stiff plumes of a 
dark colour, extending towards its base. The throat and the neck anteriorly have 
with the violet a plumbeous lustre, and on the breast and belly this colour is 
considerably diluted. The vent is yellow. The brown colour of the plumes which 
cover the upper part of the neck, becomes darker towards the back, and assumes a 
sooty tint. The wings above are very deep blackish brown, more intense near the 
shoulder, and lighter towards the extremity. A yellow streak, formed by a series 
of narrow plumes, between the coverts and secondary quill-feathers, passes longitu- 
dinally along the wing, and meets, near its lower termination, an interrupted 
transverse band of the same colour, caused by a very small semilunar mark, on the 
exterior margin of the secondary quill-feathers, near their lower extremity. The 
quill-feathers are white from their base to about one-half of their length ; but the 
coverts of the wing are so disposed, that they leave a part of the base open, which 
appears as an irregular white spot on the exterior margin. The wings underneath, 
from the axilla; towards the shoulder, are covered with yellow plumes, which appear 
in an exterior border of that colour. Below this, somewhat interiorly, is a brown 
spot, made up of very minute plumes, closely applied to the surface of the wing. 
The sides of the back are of an intensely brown colour ; in the middle it is variegated 
with plumes, on which portions of black and yellow are unequally distributed* 
The coverts of the tail are lengthened, black at the base, and yellow towards the 
extremity, so that the uropygium appears yellow. From the lower part of the 
back a broad black spot stretches towards the hypochondria?. The tail consists of 
twelve feathers : — the two intermediate ones are entirely black ; the four next in order 
on each side are of the same colour, having near the extremity a white transverse band ; 
on the two exterior feathers this band is near the middle, and rather broader. The 
bill is reddish brown at the base; tow aids the extremity both mandibles are irregu- 
larly variegated, and striped: in the upper m;indible the culmen, or back, is uniformly 
of a yellowish colour. The cutting edges are intensely black, and shining. The 
tarsi and toes have a dusky yellowish hue, and the claws are brown, inclining to black. 
On the Plate of Illustrations, in letter P. and Q., the bill and foot of Eurylaimus 
javanicus are represented, as far as is necessary for elucidating the generic description. 
