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Coracias temmincki, Wall. Ibis, 1864, p. 41 ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas 

 Coraces, p. 138 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 75, no. 899 (1869) ; 

 Walden, Trans. Z. S. viii. p. 43 (1872) : Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 59 ; 

 Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, etc. i. p. 512 (1880) ; Blasius, Zeitschr. aes. 

 Orn. ii. p. 242 (1885), iii. p. 88 (1886). 



Adult male. Above olive-green washed with lighter green ; lower 

 back and rump purplish blue; upper tail-coverts bright silvery 

 cobalt ; wings and tail purplish blue, the inner secondaries washed 

 with olive-green like the back ; crown of head and nape bright 

 cobalt, with a slight greenish shade ; lores, sides of face, sides" of 

 neck, and a broad collar round the hind neck black with a purplish 

 wash ; under surface of body dark purplish blue, with a white chin- 

 spot, the throat and chest having the feathers mesially streaked 

 with lighter purplish blue; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and 

 quilUining bright purplish blue : " bill black ; feet yellowish 

 brown ; iris clear hazel-brown " {Dr. Platen). Total length 14-5 

 inches, culmen 1-6, wing 7*35, tail 5-5, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 13 

 inches, culmen 1-6, wing 7*2, tail 5-6, tarsus 0-9. 



Hab. Celebes. 



a, b Ad. et juv. Menado. Wallace Coll. 



sk. 



c Ad. St Makassar. Wallace Coll. 



d, e d" ad. sk. Celebes (Mus. Lugd.). Salvin-Godman CoU. 



/• ^°- sk. Celebes. Tweeddale Coll. 



11. Coracias cyanogaster. 



Le Rollier a ventre bleu, Levaill. Ois. Parad. Polliers, p. 78 nl 26 

 (1806). ' F ' ) !"• -" 



Coracias cyanogastra, Cuv. Regne Anim. i. p. 401 (1817) ; Wagl. 

 Syst. Av. Coracias, no. 6 (1827) ; Jard. ^ Selby, lU. Orn. iii pi' 

 cxxiu. (c. 1830) ; Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 108, pl.xiii. (1837) : 

 Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 62 (1845) ; id. Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 34 

 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 167 (1850) ; Reichenb. Handb., 

 Merop. p. 48, Taf. 432. figs. 3683-84 (1852) ; Hartl. Orn. Westafr. 

 p. 30 (1857); Cab. 1^- Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 116 (1860); Hartl 

 J.f. 0. 1861, p. 104; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 136 (1SH7) ; 

 Bocage, Jorn. Zisb. 1867, p. 133 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 76 (1869) • 

 S/iarpe, Ibis, 1871, p. 202. ^ ^ ' 



Galgulus cyanogaster, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxix. p. 436 

 (1819). 



Coraciura cyanogastra, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Ants. p. 7 (1854). 



Adult. Head, neck, and breast pale fawn-colour, everywhere per- 

 vaded with a silvery green lustre, so that the ground-colour is not 

 perceptible ; chin, an obsolete eyebrow, and longitudinal streaks on 

 the throat hoary white ; upper portion of the back and scapulars 

 deep ohve-brown ; wing-coverts vivid ultramarine, the least ones 

 round the carpal joint beautiful silvery cobalt ; quills black, glossed 

 above and below with ultramarine, the basal half of the primaries 

 and also of the outer secondaries silvery cobalt, forming a con- 



