. Natural history. Zoology. 356 AVES—ORDER EURYLMML. Fig. 90.—The 'White- bellied Jacamar (Galbula leucogastra.) The Broad-Bills, —Order Eurylmmi. habits, and we learn from Messrs. Salvin and Godnian in their "Bioloeia" that it is a solitary bird, frequenting deep ravines overhung with trees ; it has a quick, darting flight, utters no cry, and feeds on insects. Mr. Richmond says that, on the Escondido River in Nicaragua, he noticed the bird jerking its tail like a kingfisher, and he describes the cry as piercing, and resembling the syllables "ke^-u," with the first syllable
. Natural history. Zoology. 356 AVES—ORDER EURYLMML. Fig. 90.—The 'White- bellied Jacamar (Galbula leucogastra.) The Broad-Bills, —Order Eurylmmi. habits, and we learn from Messrs. Salvin and Godnian in their "Bioloeia" that it is a solitary bird, frequenting deep ravines overhung with trees ; it has a quick, darting flight, utters no cry, and feeds on insects. Mr. Richmond says that, on the Escondido River in Nicaragua, he noticed the bird jerking its tail like a kingfisher, and he describes the cry as piercing, and resembling the syllables "ke^-u," with the first syllable very shrill and strongly accentuated. Before commencing the account of the true perch- ing birds or Fasseriformes, there remain two orders which have generally been placed with the latter, but which, in our opinion, should be kept distinct. These are the broad-bills {Eurykemi) and the lyre- birds {Meiiurce). The broad-bills are only found in the Himalayan region in India, whence they extend through the Bur- mese provnices to the Malayan peninsula and islands to Borneo and the Philip- pines. They have a passerine or segithognathous palate, but the structure of the deep plantar tendons is strikingly different from those of the typical passerine foot, as the flexor Imigus hal- lucis tendon sends out a strong band or '^viticnlum" to join the i&n<^onoi the flexor 2?rofundus dig itorum. The trachea is also peculiar, and the sternum has no forked manubrial process. In the first sub- farnily of the EuryliemidcB Dr. Sclater places but one genus, GalyptomeiM, which IS distinguished by the frontal plumes covering the nostrils. It contains but three species, which are, however, the finest of the broad-bills. Their princi- pal colour is emerald-green, varied with velvety black, and 0. whiteheadi from Kina Balu Mountain in Northern Borneo, is the largest of the family, mea- suring nearly a foot in length. It builds a good-sized nest, according to Mr. John Whitehead, who di
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