08 HALCYONIN &. 
walls and roofs; the size of the nest depends mainly on the 
size of the hole, and is composed of grass, feathers, and bits of 
rags, &c.; the eggs, generally four in number, are broad oval in 
shape, glossy china-white in color, and measure 13 in length by 
1:06 in breadth. 
Coracias garrula, Lin. 
125.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 218; Murray’s Weer ieete 
Zoology of Sind, p. 109. | 
THE EUROPEAN ROLLER. 
Length, 13; wing, 7°75; tail,5; tarsus, 0°98; bill at front, 
1:37. 
Bill blackish ; irides red-brown ; feet yellow-brown. ; 
The whole head, neck, and lower parts pale blue, duller on 
the head, brighter ‘on the chin and throat, and streaked paler ; 
back, scapulars and tertiaries chesnut-bay ; shoulders and lesser-. 
coverts violet-blue; the greater-coverts pale blue; quills deep 
violet blue ; the lower part of the back violet-blue. ; upper tail- 
coverts light blue; tail with the two centre tail-feathers dull 
ashy-blue, the others pale azure, dull dark blue at their base, 
which color increases in extent towards the centre ; the two outer 
feathers are tipped with dark blue. 
The European Roller occurs as an occasional seasonal ee 
to Sind; but has not been recorded from any other portion of tg 
district. 
Famity, Haleyonide, Vigors. 
Bill very long, stout, angular, straight pointed, broadish at 
base, acute at ‘tip; gape wide ; rictus smooth ; wings moderate, 
rounded ; tail usually short ; tarsus and toes very ’ small, feeble, the 
latter much syndactyle, especially the outer one to the middle ; 
one toe sometimes wanting. 
SuB-FAMILY, Halcyonine. 
Mostly of large size; bill strong, thick, broad at the base, 
straight; culmen slightly inclining at the tip; gape smooth ; 
wings short, broad. 
Genus, Pelargopsis. 
The characters are the same as those of the sub-family, but 
the culmen is flattened. 
Pelargopsis gurial, Pears. 
127.—Halcyon lewcocephalus, Gmel.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, 
Vol. I, p. 222 ; Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 382 ; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 61. 
THE BROWN-HEADED KINGFISHER. 
Length, 16; expanse, 22; wing, 6; tail, 4; tarsus, 0°75; bill 
at gape, 4; bill at front, 3°4, 
