EUKTSTOMTJS. 



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Khandesh, Ahmedabad, the Satpura hills, Ajmere, Mussooree, and 

 Garhwal. 



Habits, Sfc. Very similar to those of G. indica, but the present 

 species is more often seen away from trees. It has the same 

 peculiar flight, the same habit of tumbling about in the air 

 (whence the name of Eoller), and a similar harsh voice, and it lives 

 on insects in the same way. It nidificates sometimes in holes or 

 hollows in trees, often in cliffs or sandy banks, or mud walls, 

 occasionally in ruins, and lays from May to Jidy 4 or 5 or rarely 

 B white, glossy, long oval eggs, measuring on an average 1'52 

 by M. 



Mr. Blyth states that he saw a skin from Kashmir showing 

 intermixture of this species with C. indica. 



Genus EURYSTOMUS, A^ieill., 1816. 



BiU short and broad ; width of the gape about equal to the 

 length of the culmen, the terminal part compressed and the 

 upper mandible hooked ; no rictal bristles. 



A single species is Indian ; other species occur in Madagascar 

 and tropical Africa, China, the Malay Archipelago, and Australia. 



Fig. 30.— Head of E. orientalis. 



1025. Eurystomus orientalis. The Broad-hilled Holler. 



Coracias orientalis, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i, p. 159 (1766). 



Eurystomus orientalis, Blyth, Cat. p. 51 : Layard A. M. N. H. (2) 

 xi'i, p. 171 ; Borsf. i^- M. Cat. p. 121 ; Jerdon, B. I. \, p. 219 ; id. 

 Ibis, 1872, p. 3 ; Bhjth, Ibis, 1866, p. 345 ; Ball, J. A. S. B. xli, 

 pt. 2, p. 277 ; Vipan, S. F. i, p. 495 ; Hume, S. F. ii, p. 164 ; xi, 

 p. 43 ; id. Cat. no. 126 ; Morgan, S. F. ii, p. 531 ; Godw.-Aust. 

 J. A. S.B. xliii, pt. 2, p. 154 ; Bli/th, Birds Bunn. p. 72 ; Bour- 

 dillon, S. F. iv, p. 382 ; Let/ffe, Birds Ceyl. p. 285 ; Hume Sf Bat: 

 S. F. vi, p. 72; Davison, S. F. x. p. 351 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 70; 

 id. in Hume's N. Sf E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 57; Dresser, Ibis, 1891, 

 p. 99 ; SJuoye, Cat. B. M. xvii, p. 33, pi. ii, fig. 6. 



Eurystomus l^tior, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 551 ; id. Cat. B. M. 

 xvii, p. 36. 



