CORYDON SUMATRANUS.,
Great Eurylaime.

Coracias Sumatranus, Rafi. Linn. Trans., vol. xiii. p. 303.

Eurylaimus Corydon, Temm. Pl. Col. 297.—Less. Traité d’Orn., p. 261.—Atlas, pl. 50. fig. 1.

Eurylaimus ? Hay, Journ. As. Soc., vol. x. p. 575. :

Corydon Sumatranus, Strickl. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. vi. p. 417.—Blyth, Cat. of Birds in Mus. of As. Soc.
Calcutta, p. 195.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 168.

Corydon Temmincki, Less. Man. d’Orn., tom. i. p. 177.

Eurylaimus Sumatranus, Vig. App. to Mem. of Sir 8. Raffles, p. 653.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 65,
Eurylaimus, sp. 6.—G. R. Gray, List of Birds in Brit. Mus. Coll., part ii. sec. 1. p. 37.

Eurylaimus Corydon Swmatranus, Horsf. Cat. of Birds in Mus. in East Ind. Comp., p. 117.

Kung-quait, Malays.

 

Tue tropical portions of India and the adjacent islands are without question the head quarters of the Hury-
laimine, for like EF. Javanicus and E. ochromalus, the present extraordinary bird is there found, the provinces
it inhabits being Tenasserim, the Malayan peninsula generally, Sumatra, and I believe Borneo. It is the
largest species of the family yet discovered, and also differs from all its congeners in the absence of adorn-
ment in its plumage, the sooty black hue of which is merely relieved by a large blood-coloured patch on
the back and the dingy brownish white patch on the throat.
The female is said so nearly to resemble the male in colour as not to be distinguished.

broad and strong bill, its greatly dilated margins and other peculiarities naturally
s bird from the other members of the family, and of making it the
stands alone, no other species of the form having
seem to indicate some great

The extraordinarily
suggested the propriety of separating thi
type of a new genus, Corydon, in which at present it
been discovered. The singularly formed mandibles and enormous gape would

of life, with which it would be interesting to be made acquainted.

peculiarity in its mode
s bird, but of what kinds is uncertain, for we

Insects and fruits doubtless constitute the food of this curiou
have everything yet to learn respecting its habits and economy. .
General plumage brownish black ; on the throat a large patch of brownish white, each feather with a
crescent mark of reddish brown at the tip; on the centre of the back a small patch a red feathers with
black tips, and a whitish line down their centres ; lateral tail-feathers crossed near the tip with an oblique

irregular mark of white; orbits and bill fleshy red.

The figure is of the natural size.

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