Genus CROSSODERA. 
Characteres Generici 
i/if m Eurylaimo, at forma graciliore, rostro angustiore et compressiusculo, alis brevioribus ; caudd elongatd, et gradatd. 
EURYLAIMUS (CROSSODERA) DALHOUSIiE, J ames. 
Frillnecked Eurylaimus. 
Cross, capite nigro, nota in vertice, alterd in occipite, et tertid in mediis alis, splendidi et metallice caeruleis, penicilld, 
elongatd, et favescenti-viridi, ad utrumque latus occipitis ; facie lined flavescenti-viridi cinctd ; fimbrid plumosd 
fiavd albd marginatd a gutture tendente, collumque cingente ; corpore intense -viridi, alarum primariis nigrescenti- 
fuscis, rectricibus caudee intermediis viridi lavatis ; rostro nigrescenti-olivaceo, culmine marginibusque flavis tarsis 
brunn escenti- olivaceis. 
Long. tot. 10 unc. ; rostri, l-^; alce, 3^; caudee, 5-^; tarsi, 1. 
A large patch on the cro‘v\Ti of the head, another on the occiput, and a third on the centre of the wing of line 
metallic blue ; the remainder of the head black, with the exception of a lengthened tuft on each side of the 
occiput of a yellowish green ; a belt of feathers surrounds the face of greenish yellow ; a full frill of yellow 
feathets edged with white extends from the throat and surrounds the neck ; general plumage of the body 
fine deep green ; quills blackish browm ; two centre tail-feathers slightly washed with blue ; bill blackish 
olive with the culmen and edges yellow ; tarsi olive brown. 
Eurylaimus Dalhousiee, Jameson, in Edin. New Phil. Journ. vol. xviii. p. 389. 
Royle, 111. of the Botany, &c. of the Himalaya Mountains, pi. 6. 
In the first volume of the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, I published figures and a descrip- 
tion of a new species of Eurylaimus, under the specific appellation of lunatus, and gave a detailed account by 
way of Synopsis of all the species then on record : since that period the present very beautiful species has 
been made known to us. The first specimen was brought home by the Countess of Dalhousie, and was soon 
after dedicated to that lady by Professor Jameson, a figure also from the drawing of a native artist has been 
published in Mr. Royle’s Illustrations of the Botany, See., of the Himalaya Mountains above quoted. 
We have had opportunities of examining several specimens, all of which were from those elevated and pro- 
ductive regions the Himalaya Mountains. 
It is unquestionably the most splendid species of the genus, and differs from all its congeners not only in 
the more brilliant colouring of its plumage, great elegance of its form, but its larger size, and in its 
lengthened and graduated tail. ’It possesses a beautiful frill of silky feathers, which nearly surrounds the 
neck ; two tufts also spring from above each eye, which from the more lengthened form of these feathers 
give the bird the appearance of having horns. These differences from the type of the genus have induced 
me to assign this bird provisionally as the type of a new genus, which I have named Crossodera, the value of 
which will however depend upon future observations, and uj)on other specimens possessing similar characters 
being discovered. 
Nothing whatever is known of the habits and manners of this species, but insects and berries doubtless 
Constitute its natural food. 
Habitat. The Himalaya and Nepaul. 
The figure is of the natural size. 
