302 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
265. EURYSTOMUS ORIENTALIS (Linneus). 
a ae ROLLER, 
Coracias orientalis LINN&HUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 159. 
Eurystomus orientalis Hum, Oates ed., N. & E. Ind. Birds (1890), 3, 57; 
SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 33, pl. 2, fig. 1; Hand-List 
(1900), 2, 47; BLANForD, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1895), 3, 107, fig. 
30 (head) ; McGREcor and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 51. 
Lo-ro in’-chic, Manila; lan-gac, Cagayancillo; ta-ga-tac, Calayan; Sa-lac-sd-can, 
Ticao. 
Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, 
McGregor) ; Bohol (McGregor) ; Cagayancillo (McGregor) ; Calamianes (Bourns 
é& Worcester); Calayan (McGregor); Camiguin N. (McGregor); Cebu (Hverett, 
Bourns & Worcester); Cuyo (Meyer); Dinagat (Hverett); Fuga (McGregor) ; 
Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Hap., Bourns &€ Worcester) ; Leyte (Steere Hxp., Hverett, 
Whitehead) ; Libagao (Porter); Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Steere Hxp., Bourns & 
Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Maestre de Campo (McGregor & Worcester) ; 
Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Steere Exp., McGregor) ; Mindanao (Steere, 
Murray, Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, Steere Hxp., Goodfellow, Celestino), Min- 
doro (Steere Exp., Schmacker, Everett, Bowrns &€ Worcester, McGregor, Porter) ; 
Negros (Steere, Layard, Everett, Steere Exp., Whitehead, Keay) ; Palawan (Everett, 
Platen, Whitehead, Bourns & Worcester, White) ; Panaon (Everett) ; Panay (Steere 
Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Romblon (Bourns & Worcester); Samar (Steere 
Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead) ; Sibutu (Hverett); Sibuyan (Bourns ¢ 
Worcester) ; Siquijor (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Sulu (Gwillemard, 
Bourns & Worcester); Tablas (Bourns & Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & 
Worcester) ; Ticao (McGregor); Verde (McGregor). Malay Peninsula, Burmese 
provinces, Cachar, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Andamans, and Nicobars. 
Adult.—Forehead, crown, and sides of face black becoming dark brown 
on occiput, neck, ear-coverts, and sides of neck; back, rump, tail-coverts, 
scapulars, inner secondaries, and secondary-coverts brown, washed with 
dull oily green; chin black with a small white spot in the center; throat 
deep purplish blue with bright blue mesial streaks; remainder of under 
parts greenish blue, becoming more intense on crissum; primaries, outer 
secondaries, and rectrices glossy black, marked more or less on both webs 
with deep purplish blue; a wide band of light blue across middle of 
primaries; alula and primary-coverts black, edged with deep purplish 
blue. Bill and legs bright red; nails and tip of bill black. Length of 
a male, 280; wing, 180; tail, 96; culmen from base, 33; tarsus, 17. 
Length of a female, 266; wing, 190; tail, 104; culmen from base, 34; 
middle toe with claw, 29. 
“Young.—Differs from the adult in being duller in color and in hav- 
ing a black bill, and in wanting the bright blue patch on the throat, which 
is greenish, a little duller than the abdomen.” (Sharpe.) 
“Sixteen specimens measure as follows: Length, 352; wing, 181; tail, 
109; culmen, 24; tarsus, 17; middle toe with claw, 26. Usually seen 
perching on some dead limb from which it flies in persuit of insects, soon 
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