36 cnRACirp,5E. 



Siibsp. a. Eurystomus laetior. 



Eurvstomus orientalis {7iec L.),Holdsu\ P. Z. S. 1872, p. 42.1 ; Vipan, 

 Str. F. i. p. 405 (1873) ; Morgan, Str. F. ii. p. 531 (1874) ; Hume, 

 Sir. F. iv. p. 382 (1876) ; Ler/r/e, B. Ceylon, p. 285 (1878) ; Davison, 

 Str. F. X. p. 351 (1883) ; dates, eel. Hume's Nests ^ Eggs Ind. B. 

 iii. p. 57 (1890, pt.). 



Eurystomus laetior, Sharpe, P.Z. S. 1890, p. 551. 



Adult. Similar to E. orientalis, and having the terminal half of 

 the tail black, hut diflering in the very black head and in the intense 

 blue colour of the underparts, so that the bird resembles E. crassi- 

 rostiis of New Guinea and the Papuan Islands : " bill deep orange- 

 red, the tip of the upper mandible black ; orbital skin red ; tarsi and 

 feet orange-red ; feet duskier than the tarsus ; iris hazel-brown " 

 (W. V. Legge). Total length 11 inches, culmen 1-15, wing 7*8, 

 tail 4, tarsus 0-65. 



Hab. Southern India and Ceylon. 



a. Ad. sk. Ceylon. T. Thwaites, Esq. [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Ceylon. Tweeddale Coll. 



r. S ad. sk. Eridge, Travancore, Dec. 21. F. Bourdillon,Esq. [C.]. 

 d. (S ad. sk. Asamboo Hills, Travancore, Hume Coll. 

 Aug. {F. Bourdillon). 



5. Eurystomus australis. 



? Pacific Roller, Lath. Gen. Sijn. Suppl. ii. p. 371 (1801) *. 



? Coracias pacifica. Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xsvii ( 1791). 



? Galgulus pacificus, Tieill. N. Diet, d Hist. Nat. xxix. p. 435 (1819) ; 

 id. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 870 (1823). 



Eurystomus orientalis (nee Z.), Viq. Sf Horsf. Trans. Limi. Soc. xv. 

 p. 202 (1826) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 345 ; Finsch, Neu-Guinea, 

 p. 160 (1865, pt.) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 139 (1867, pt.) ; 

 Walden, Trans. Z. S. viii. p. 43 (1872) ; Briigyevi. Abhandl. nat. 

 Ver. Bremen, v. p. 49 (1876) ; Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 60 ; id. Verh. 

 z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxxi. pp. 763, 769 (1881); id. Sitz. N. Abhandl. 

 Ges. Isis, Abth. i. p. 5 (1884) ; Guillem. P. Z. S 1885, pp. 568, 629. 



Eurvstomus australis, Sivains. An. inMenag.'p.32Q (1827); Reichenb. 

 fog. Neuholl. p. 38 (1850). 



Eurvstomus pacificus, Gray, Ann. 8f Mag. Nat. Hist, xi, p. 190 

 (1843) ; id. Gen. B. i. p. 62 (1845) ; id. Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 32 

 (1848) ; Goidd, B. Amtr. ii. pi. 17 (1843) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 168 

 (1850) ; Eeichenb. Handb., Merop. p. 55, Taf. 437. fiirs. 3198, 3199 

 (1852); Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Neiv Guin. pp. 18, 54 (1859) ; Cab. 

 ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 120 (1860) ; Wall, Ibis, 1860, p. 147 ; 

 id. P. Z. S. 1862, pp. 335, 349 ; Rosenb. J. f. 0. 1864, p. 118 ; Gould, 

 Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 119 (1865) ; Pet.' Be is. Novara, Vog. p. 42 

 (1865, pt.) ; Ramsai/, Ibis, 1866, p. 327 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 121 ; 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. i.'p. 76, no. 907 (1869) ; Elliot, Ibis, 1871, p. 204 ; 

 Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 582 ; Scl. Ibis, 1876, p. 247 ; Cab. 8f 

 Reichen. J. f. 0. 1876, p. 323; Salvad. 8r DAlbert. Ann. Mus. 

 Genov. xiv. p. 53 (1879) ; Salvad. Orn. Papuasia etc. i. p. 503 



* This description is so inaccurate that it is impossible to identify it with 

 the Australian Roller. Latham says: — " Head and neck cAesifnw;; ; lower part 

 of the neck from the rlirshmf downwards, &c." 



