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4, Eurystomus orientalis. (Plate II. flg. 1.) 



Le Rollier des Indes, Bn'ss. Orn. ii. p. 75, pi. 7. i3g. 2 (1700) ; 

 Daube7it. PI. Enl. iii. pi. 619; Month. Nat. Hist. Ois. iii. p. 147 

 (1775). 



Coracias orientalis, Li7^n. S. N. i. p. 159 (1766) ; Gm. S. N. i. p. 379 

 (1788) ; Hajl. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 302 (1820). 



Oriental Roller, Lath. Gen. Sijn. i. p. 411 (1781). 



Le Rolle a gorge bleue, Levaill. Ois. de Farad. Rolliers,i^. 183, pi. 36 

 (1806). 



Eurystomus orientalis, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zoul. vii. p. 403 (1809) ; 

 Stvains. An. in Menag. p. 326 (1837); Gray, Gen. £. i. p. 62 

 (1845); Bp. Consj}. i. p. 168 (1850); Reichenb. Hundh., Merop. 

 p. 54, Taf. 437. figs. 3195, 3196, 3197 (1852) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, 

 p. 267; Horsf. Sc Moore, Cat. B. Mtis. E.I. Co. i. p. 121 (1854) ; 

 Cab. ^- Heine., Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 120 (I860) ; Pek. Reis. Novara, 

 rSg. p. 42 (1865) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 139 (1867, 

 pt.j; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 70, no. 906 (1869); Blanford, Ibis, 

 1870, p. 465 ; Elliot, Ibis, 1871, p. 204 (pt.) ; Walden '^- Layard, 

 Ibis, 1872, p. 100 ; Wahleu, Ibis, 1873, p. 108 ; Ball, Str. F. i. 

 p. 57 (1873) ; Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 164 (1874) ; Walden, Trans. Z. S. 

 ix. p. 152 {l87o) ■ Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 105 (1874); D/i/th ^■ 

 Wald. B. Burm. p. 72 (1875) ; Sharpie, Ibis, 1877, p. 7 ; Wardlaw 

 Ramsay, t. c. p. 457 ; Hume Sf Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 72 (1878) ; 

 Tiraiit, Ois. Basse- Cochinchine, p. 99 (1879) ; Sharjw, Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 240 ; id. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 332 ; Hiane, Str. F. viii. p. 85 (1879) ; 

 Binyham, t. c. p. 193; id. op. cit. ix. p. 153 (1880) ; Sahml. Orn. 

 Papuasia, i. p 508 (1880); Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 373 ; Sharpe, 

 P. Z. S. 1881, p. 793; Nichols. Ibis, 1832, p. 67 ; Oates, Ilandb. B. 

 Brit. Burm. ii. p. 70 (1883); Snellem. in Veth's Midden-Sumatra, 

 Voy. p. 37 (1885) ; Biitfik. Notes Leyden Mus. ix. p. 41 (1887); 

 Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 43 (1888) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 197 ; Blasius, 

 Ornis, 1888, p. 579 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1889, p. 21 ; Whitehead, t. c. 

 p. 45 ; Salvad. Ayg. Orn. Papuasia, p. GO (1889) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1890, 

 p. 21 ; id. P. Z. S. 1890, p. 550 ; Steere, List B. ^ Mamm. Philipp. 

 p. 9 (1890) ; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests Sj- Eqgs Ind. B. iii. p. 57 

 (1890, pt.). 



Colaris orientalis, Ctiv. Reqne Anim. i. p. 401 (1817); Horsf. Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 162 (1820). 



Eurystomus evanicollis, Tleill. t. c. p. 425 (1819) ; id. Gal. Ois. i. 

 p. 176, pi. ii'i. (1825) ; Bp. Comp. i. p. 188 (1850). 



Eurystomus fuscicapillus, Vieill. N. Diet, d' Hist. Nat. xxix. p. 420 

 (1819). 



Colaris cyanicollis, Wayl. Syst. Av. Colaris, sp. 4 (1827). 



Colaris garrula {nee L.), Gueriji-Mhiev. Iconoyr. Regno Atiim. pi. 22. 

 fig. 2 '(1829-38). 



Eurystomus pacificus (nee Lath.), Moil. S)- Dillw. N. H. Labuan, p. 1 1 

 (1855). 



Adult male. General colour above bluish green, with an oily-green 

 shade on the mantle and upper back ; lesser wing-coverts like the 

 bank, the median and greater coverts brighter and more greenish 

 cobalt ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts purplish blue, fringed and 

 tipped with green ; (juills black, the primaries with a large patch of 

 silvery cobalt near the base, the inner secondaries green like the 

 back ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers black, externally 

 washed with purplish blue for half the distance, greenish blue near 



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