24 COKACIIDJE. 



8. Coracias naevius. 



Coracias nsevia, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 2-58 (1800) ; Licht. Vera. Doubl. 

 p. 20 (1823) ; Strickl. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 216 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1871, 

 p 190 (pt.) : Antin. Sf Salvad. Viaqg. Bogos, p. 03 (1873) ; Sahiid. 

 Ann. Mas. Genov. (2) i. p. 114 (1884) : Shelle;/, Ibis, 1885, p. 399 ; 



Salvad. A7in. Mus. Genov. (2) vi. p. 223 (1888). 

 ? Hairy Roller, Lath. Gen. Si/n. Suppl. ii. p. 123 (1801). 

 ? Coracias pilosa, Lath. hid. Orn. Suppl. p. xxvii (1801) ; Vieill. K 



Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxix. p. 430 (1819). 

 Le Rollier vari(5 d'Afrique dans son jeune age, LevailL Ois. Farad. 



Rolliers, p. 84, pi. 29 (1806). 

 .p Coracias crinita, Steph. in Shmos Gen. Zool. vii. p. 401 (1809) ; 



Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 7 (1854). 

 PGalgulus pilosus, Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 867 (1823). 

 Coracias nuclialis, Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 110 (1837) ; Grat/, Gen. 



B. i. p. 62 (1845) ; Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 7 (1854). 

 Coracias levaillanti, Temm. (ubi?) ; Rlipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 23 (1845) 



Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 18 (1856). 

 Coracias pilosa. Gray, Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 34 (1848) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 167 (18o0) ; Eeichenb. Hundb., Merop. p. 49, Taf. 433. 



tio-. 3184 (1852) ; Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 124 ; Horsf. Sf Moore, 



Cat. B. Mus. F. I. Co. ii. p. 571 (1856); Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 30 (1857) ; Cab. ^ Heine, 3Ius. Hdn. Th. ii. p. 117 (1860) ; 



Antin. Cat. descr. Ucc. p. 27 (1864); Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, 



Abyss, p. 

 Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, vii. p. 110 (1881; Muggi); 

 Haiiert, J.f. 0. 1886, p. 592. 



Adult male. General colour above olivaceous, the head not like 

 the back, but clear reddish lilac like the under surface ; a white 

 nuchal patch ; lores and base of forehead as well as a broad eye- 

 brow white ; lower rump and upper tail-coverts lilac-blue, the 

 latter more purplish blue ; wing-coverts reddish lilac, brighter along 

 the edge of the wing ; the smaller coverts near the carpal bend of 

 the wing deep blue like the bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 outer aspect of the quills ; the secondaries more or less lilac near 

 their bases, this colour extending on the inner secondaries, the 

 innermost of which are olive-lilac like the back, slightly washed 

 with green ; the primaries also washed with greenish blue on their 

 outer web ; tail-feathers dark purplish blue, with a greenish shade 

 on the centre ones ; chin white ; under surface of body reddish 

 lilac, streaked with white centres to the feathers ; thighs almost 

 white ; under tail-coverts pale lilac ; under wing-coverts pale lilac 

 reddish ; quills dusky below, shaded with blue, the base of the quills 

 greyish white : " bill black ; feet pale yellowish olive : iris brown, 

 almost raw sienna" {W. T. Blanford). Total length 12 inches, 

 culmen 1"7, wing 7*4, tail 5-3, tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 12-5 

 inches, culmen 1-45, wing 7, tail 5*4, tarsus 0-9. 



Yoiint/. Forehead, eyebrow, and nuchal patch very distinct ; 



