BROADBILLS. 
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that the bright red breast of the male bird gives it quite a gay appearance among 
the dull plumaged species that people the thickets of Patagonia. It builds a slight 
nest of line twigs, lined with fibres, and generally placed in a thorn-bush; the eggs 
being bluish-green in ground-colour, with brownish flecks. The male bird has the 
upper-parts dull grey, with the tips of the tail-feathers and a wing-bar white; and 
the forehead and under - surface deep brick-red. The female is yellowish grey 
above, obscurely mottled, and the breast and under-parts buff with dark spots. 
The Broadbills. 
Family EuryLjEMILjE. 
Deriving their name from, and readily distinguished by, the enormous breadth 
of their bills, which are generally associated with the possession of bright colours, 
JAVAN BROADBILL (1 liat size). 
the broadbills are the eastern representatives of the chatterers of the New World. 
They are birds of fairly powerful make, having the upper mandible dilated at its 
base, and the tip of the beak abruptly hooked; while the wings are rather short, 
and the tail is short and rounded. The broadbills, which Wallace considers to 
be the survivors of a once extensive group, possess a very limited distribution, 
