10 C0EAC1ID.E. 



d'". Abdomen purplish blue, contrastiug- with 

 tiio breast, wliich is fawn-buft' with a 

 i;reeuish shade ; primary-coverts purplish 



blue ci/coioff/istiT, p. l'7- 



h'. Witli uo light baud of silvery blue on the 

 quills, thi^se being- entirely black, glossed 

 with purple internally and on the outer web; 

 back olive-greenish ; head and upper tail- 

 coverts silvery cobalt fpmminrli, p. 26. 



h. With a white nuchal patch. 



'■'. Crown of head lilac-rufous, contrasting with 

 the olive shade on the back ; throat lilac- 

 rufous like the rest of the underparts, all being 



streaked with white ncevms, p. 24. 



d'. Crown of head greenish olive like the back; 

 throat and fore neck somewhat pur])lish. 

 contrastiug with the breast, which is lilac- 

 rufous oUvaceiceps, p. 25. 



1. Coracias indicus. 

 The Jay from Bengal, Alhin, Nat. Hist. B.i. p. 17, pi. 17 {l7SS,Jit/. 



The Blue Jav from the East Indies, Edwards, Glemiinys, iii. p. 247, 

 pi. 326 (^64). 



Le Piollier de Mindanao, Briss. Orn. i. p. 09, pi. i. fig. 1 (1760) ; 

 Datibent. PL Enl. iii. pi. 285. 



Coracias iudica, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 159 (1760) ; G)n. S. N. i. 

 p. 378 (1788) ; Syles, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 96 ; Jerd. Madr. Jotirn. xi. 

 p. 229 (1840) ; £li/th, Ann. ^ May. N. H. xii. p. 94 (1843) ; Grai/, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 02 (1845); id. Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal jn-es. Hodijs. p. 5o 

 (1840, pt.) ; id. Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 33 (1848) ; Blyth, Cat. B. 

 Mas. As. Soc. p. 51 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 167 (1850) ; Kelaart, 

 Prodr. Cat. p. 118 (1852); Eeichenh. Handh., Merop.j).AS>, tab. 433. 

 tig. 3185 (1852) ; Bp. Consp. Valuer. Anis. p. 7 (1854) ; Ilorsf. S) 

 Moore, Cat. B. Mm. E. I. Co. ii. p. 571 (1850) ; Cab. S,- Heine, Mus. 

 Hein.Th. ii. p. 118 (1859) ; J/%, Ibis, 1861, p. 228 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. 

 p. 214 (1802) ; Beavan, His, 1865, p. 407 ; Bhjth, Ibis, 1860, 

 p. 345 : Schl. Mus. Pai/s-Bas, Coraces, p. 135 (1867) ; Grai/, 

 Hund-l. 5. i. p. 76, no. 900 (1869) ; Gould, B. Asia, i. pi. 54 (1809) ; 

 Ehces, Ibis, 1870, p. 527 ; Dresser, B. Eur. v. p. 149, pi. 240 

 (1871) ; Ilohhw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 423; IJl,/t/i, Ibis, 1873, p. 80; 

 Ilai/es Lloyd, t. c. p. 400 ; Hume, Nests t$- Er/ys Ind. B. p. 103 

 (1873) ; id. Str. F. i. p. 167 (1873) ; Morqan, Ibis, 1874, p. 314; 

 Butler, Str. F. iii. p. 450 (1875) ; Bvwd. Str. i^'.iv.p. 382 (1870) ; 

 Scl. 4- E. C. Taylor, Ibis, 1870, p. 03 ; Fairb. Str. F. v. p. 394 

 (1877) ; Bla?if. East. Persia, ii. p. 120 (1870) ; Davidson i^- Wetiden, 

 Str. F. vii. p. 77 (1878) ; Ball, t. c. p. 203 ; Legye, B. Ceylon, p. 281 

 (1878) ; Danf. Ibis, 1878, p. 7 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 85 (1879) ; 

 Scndly, t. c. p. 237 ; Doiy, t. c. p. 370 ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind etc. 

 p. 10 (1879); id. Cut. B. S. Bomb. Pres. p. 18 (1880); Vidal, 

 Str. F. ix. p. 49 (1880) ; TVardlaw Bamsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 50 ; 

 Davids. Str. F. x. p. 295 (1882) ; Davison, t. c. p. 351 (1883) ; 

 Murray, Vertebr. Faun. Sind, p. 109 (1884) ; Sioinh. ^- Barnes, 

 Ibis, 1885, p. 61 ; Peid, Cat. Lucknotv Mus. p. 22 (1886) ; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1880, pp. 165. 488 ; Taylor, Str. F. x. p. 450 (1887) ; Terry, 

 t. c. p. 471 : Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 547 ; Gates, ed. Hume's Nests 

 if Eyys Ind. B. iii. p. 53 (1890). 



