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Clavis sjx'cicriitn. 

 a. macula gulari nulla : corpore subtiis concolori. 



a', major: saturate violaceo-lilacinus 1. (jlaucwus. 



h' . minor: rubescenti-lilacinus 2. ufer. 



h. macula gulari magna cyauea 3. gularis. 



1. EURYSTOMUS GLAUCURUS. 



Le Rolls de Madagascar, Buff. PI. Enl. 501. 



Coracias glaucurus, P. L. S. Miill. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 86 

 (1776, ex Buff.). 



Eurystomus glaucurus, Gray, Handb. of B. i. p. 7Q (1869); 

 Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 397. 



Coracias madagascariensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 379 (1788, 

 ex Buff.). 



Le Grand Rolle violet, Levaill. Rolliers, pi. 34 (1806). 



Eurystomus madagascariensis, Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 62 (1845) ; 

 Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 7 (1854) ; Hartl. Faun. Madag. 

 p. 27 (1861) ; Roch & E. Newt. Ibis, 1862, p. 270; E. Newt. 

 Ibis, 1863, p. 341 ; Verr. in Vin. Voy. Madag. Ann. B. (1865) ; 

 Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 143 (1867) ; Grand. Rev. et 

 Mag. de Zool. 1867, p. 354; Schl. & Poll. Faun. Madag. Ois. 

 p. 103 (1868). 



Colaris madagascariensis, Cuv. Regne Anim. p. 401 (1817) ; 

 Reich. Handb. Merop. p. 56, t. ccccxxviii. fig. 3200 (1852). 



Cornopio madagascariensis. Cab. & Hein. Mus. Ilein. ii. p. 

 119(1860). 



Eurystomus violaceus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxix. p. 426 

 (1819) ; Miiller, J. f. Oru. 1855, p. 6. 



Colaris violaceus, Wagl. Syst. Av. Colaris, no. 1 (1827). 



General plumage lilac-brown, beautifully glossed with violet ; 

 the least wing-coverts, skirting the edge of the wing, and the 

 greater coverts deep ultramarine, the innermost ones inclining 

 to cobalt ; quills black, externally washed with ultramarine, the 

 inner web cobalt on the under surface, the secondaries dusky at 

 the base, the innermost ones lilac-brown, like the scapulars, with 

 which in colour they blend ; lower portion of the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts dull cobalt ; tail for the most part cobalt, more 

 glossy but not so rich on the under surface, the middle feathers 



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