4. COEACIAS. 13 



Hybrids between Coracias indicus ami C. affinis. 



Le Rollier varie des Moluques, Leoaill. Ois. Farad. RoUiers, pi. 27 



(1806). 

 Coracias affinis {nee McClelt), Gould, B. Asia, i. pi. 5.5 (1869) ; Brooks, 



Str. F. viii. p. 463 (1879). 

 Coracias indica {nee L.), Hcidly, Str. F. viii. p. 237 (1879, pt.). 

 Coracias indica affinis, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 549. 



The uudermentioued specimens are apparently hybrids between C. 

 indicus and C. affinis, and partake of the characters of both species. 



a. ij ; b,c. ^ ad. Nepal, Sept., Nov., Dec. Hiime Coll. 



sk. (J.ScuUi/), 



d-y. Ad. sk. Nepal. Hodgsou Coll. 



h, i. Ad. sk. Nepal {B. H. Hodgson), India Museum. 



k, I. Ad. sk. Native Sikhim, March, April Hume Coll. 



(i. Mandelli). 



m. Ad. sk. Sikhim. Seebohm Coll. 



n, o,p. Ad. sk. Sikhim, March, April, Sept. Hume Coll. 



{L. Mandelli). 



q. Ad. sk. Darjiliug. Seebohm Coll. 

 r. Ad. sk. Darjiliug Terai, Dec. {L. Man- Hume Coll. 



delli). 



s, t, u. Ad. sk, Tippera. Hume Coll. 



V. (S ad. sk. Calcutta, Dec. 28. Hume CoU. 



2. Coracias affinis- 



Coracias affiuis, BIcCleU. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 164; Ch-ay, Gen. B.i. 



p. 62, pi. 21 (184.5) ; Blytk, Cat. B. Mus. As. Sue. p. 51 (1849) ; 



Bcichenh. Handb., Merop. p. 50, tab. 434. hg. 3186 (1852) ; Horsf. 



^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 574 (1856) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. 



p. 217 (1862) ; Sehomb. Ibis, 1864, p. 246 ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, 



p. 136 (1867); Beavan, Ibis, lb69, p. 408; Cab. ^- Heine, Mm. 



Hein. Th. ii. p. 118 (1869) ; Gray,Hand-l.B. i. p. 76, no. 901 (1869); 



Blanf. Ibis, 1870, p. 465 ; Godwin-Aust. J. A. S. Beng. xxxix. 



p. 95 (1870) ; Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 50 (1875) ; Blyth ^- Wald. B. 



Burm. p. 72 (1875) ; Annstr. Str. F. iv. p. 305 (1876) ; Hume, Str. 



F. V. p. 18 (1877) ; id. Sf Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 72 (1878) ; Anderson, 



Rep. Zool. Exped. Yun-nan, p. 581 (1878) ; Tiraut, Ois. Cochin 



Chine, p. 09 (1879) ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 85 (1879) ; Oates, 



Handb. B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 69 (1883) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. 



Genov. (2) iv. p. 589 (1887) ; Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 48 (1888) ; 



Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 548 ; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests &• Eyas Ind. 



B. iii. p. 56 (1890). 

 Coracias beugalensis {nee Linn.), Bp. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 7 (1854). 



Adult male. Above dingy olive-brown ; wings as ia C. indicus ; 

 lower back and j'ump purplish blue ; upper tail-coverts silvery cobalt ; 

 centre tail-feathers dark blue, dusky at the ends, the remainder 

 purplish blue for the basal half, then silvery cobalt to the tips, with 

 a slight shade of dusky black at the ends, the outer feather with a 

 distinct terminal spot of black ; crown of head greenish blue, more 

 vcrditer-blue on the forehead and above the eye ; sides of face and 

 breast dingy brown, paler on the latter, and slightly washed with 



