302 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



265. EURYSTOMUS ORIENTALIS (Linnaeus). 

 BROAD-BILLED ROLLER. 



Coracias orientalis LINN^US, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 159. 



Eurystomus orientalis HUME, Gates ed., N. & E. Ind. Birds (1890), 3, 57; 

 SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 33, pi. 2, fig. 1; Hand-List 

 (1900), 2, 47; BLANFOBD, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1895), 3, 107, fig. 

 30 (head) ; MCGREGOR 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 d Worcester, 

 McGregor)', Bohol (McGregor)-, Cagayancillo (McGregor)', Calamianes (Bourns 

 & Worcester)-, Calayan (McGregor) ; Camiguin N. (McGregor)-, Cebu (Everett, 

 Bourns d Worcester); Cuyo (Meyer) ; Dinagat (Everett); Fuga (McGregor); 

 Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Leyte (Steere Exp., Everett, 

 Whitehead) ; Libagao (Porter) ; Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d 

 Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Maestre de Campo (McGregor d Worcester) ; 

 Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Steere Exp., McGregor) ; Mindanao (Steere, 

 Murray, Everett, Koch d Schadenberg, Steere Exp., Goodfellow, Celestino) , Min- 

 doro (Steere Exp., Schmacker, Everett, Bourns d Worcester, McGregor, Porter) ; 

 Negros (Steere, Layard, Everett, Steere Exp., Whitehead, Keay) ; Palawan (Everett, 

 Platen, Whitehead, Bourns d Worcester, White) ; Panaon (Everett) ; Panay (Steere 

 Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Romblon (Bourns d Worcester) ; Samar (Steere 

 Exp., Bourn* d Worcester, Whitehead) ; Sibutu (Everett) ; Sibuyan (Bourns d 

 Worcester) ; Siquijor (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Sulu (Guillcmard, 

 Bourns d Worcester) ; Tablas (Bourns d Worcester) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns d 

 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 



