CORACIAS. 475 



Length. \$ inches ; tail 5-3 ; wing 5-4 ; tarsus 0-6; bill from gape 2-5. 

 //^.Tenasserim to Moulmein, and through the Malay Peninsula to 

 Sumatra and Borneo. 



Family, CORACIAD;E, ROLLERS. 



Bill long and broad at the base, tip hooked ; nostrils at the base oblique, 

 linear, apert ; gape with strong rictal bristles ; wings and tail moderately 

 long ; 2nd quill longest ; tarsi short. 



Gen. Coracias. Lin. 



Characters same as those of the Family. 



1106. Coracias garrula (Lin.\ P. E. 486 ; Naum. wgt. t. 60 ; 



Gould, B. Eur. pi. 60 ; Jerd., H* Ind. p. 218, No. 125 ; Sir. F. vol. i. 168 ; 

 iv. 133; v. 502; Murray, Hdbk>, ZooL, fyc., Sind. p. 128; id., Vert. ZooL 

 Sind. p. 109. The EUROPEAN ROLLER. 



P'orehead whitish ; head, neck and nape pale iridescent bluish green ; chin 

 greyish, white ; throat bright bluish green with pale blue shaft-streaks j breast, 

 abdomen, vent and lower tail coverts pale bluish green ; upper back, scapu- 

 lars and tertiaries chestnut bay ; shoulders and lesser coverts violet blue, as 

 also are the lower back and rump ; upper tail coverts light blue ; primaries 

 bluish black, the outer web of the first two tinged with green, the next four 

 light blue at the base on their outer webs ; secondaries bluish black, the basal 

 half of the feathers light blue ; greater coverts pale blue j tail, with the two 



