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Broadbill

  • Eurylaimidae

    The Eurylaimidae are a family of suboscine passerine birds of the order Passeriformes. The birds are found from the eastern Himalayas to Indonesia and the Philippines. The birds of the family are commonly called broadbill.

    The name means 'broad throat', from the Greek eurus ('broad, wide') and laimos ('throat').

  • Eurylaimus

    Eurylaimus is a genus of broadbills (family Eurylaimidae) found in Southeast Asia.
    The name means 'broad throat', from the Greek eurus ('broad, wide') and laimos ('throat').

    1/ Banded broadbill (Mỏ rộng hồng, Eurylaimus javanicus) 
     The specific name javanicus comes from Java, the island on which it was discovered.

  • Psarisomus

    Psarisomus is a genus of broadbills in the family Eurylaimidae of the order Passeriformes. 
    The generic name Psarisomus comes from the name Psaris, a synonym of Tityra and the Greek word soma for "body".

    1/ Long-tailed broadbill (Mỏ rộng xanh, Psarisomus dalhousiae)

  • Serilophus

    Serilophus is a genus of broadbills in the family Eurylaimidae of the order Passeriformes.
    Eurylaimus, from the Ancient Greek ευρυς, eurus, meaning broad, and λαιμος, laimos, meaning throat. 
    Serilophus : Greek word serikos- silken; lophos -crest 

    1/ Silver-breasted broadbill (Mỏ rộng hung, Serilophus lunatus)
    lunatus lūnātus (feminine lūnāta, neuter lūnātum) crescent- or half-moon-shaped

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