476 CORACIAD/E. 



centre feathers, deep greyish green or ashy blue, the others dark greenish blue 

 for two-thirds their length on their outer webs, dusky on their inner webs, and 

 broadly tipped with light blue, the two outermost feathers with a spot of 

 blackish blue at their tips; all the feathers black shafted. Bill yellowish 

 brown, darker at the tip ; irides red brown ; feet yellow brown. 



Length, 13 inches; wing 775 ; tail 5 ; bill at front 1*37. 



Hab. Central and South Europe, Madagascar, Egypt, Arabia, Persia, 

 N.-E. Africa, Western and Central Asia. It is said to breed in Persia, 

 Afghanistan, and Turkistan. In Beloochistan, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces and 

 Sind it occurs as a migrant. 



1107. Coracias indica (Zi.), Edw. B. pi. 326 ; P. E. 285 ; Jerd^ 



B. Tnd. p. 214, No. 123; Hume, Str. F. vii. 259; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., 

 tyc., Sind, p. 128; id., Vert. Zool. Sind. p. 109. THE INDIAN ROLLER. 



Forehead rufescent brown head and nape greenish blue ; supercilium 

 light blue; hind neck, scapulars, upper back and tertiaries ashy or earthy 

 brown, tinged on the hind neck with vinous ; lower back greenish blue ; rump, 

 upper tail coverts, lesser coverts, and shoulders cobalt blue, some of the fea- 

 thers of the upper tail coverts tipped greenish ; winglet and primaries pale 

 blue, the latter with a broad band of violet blue in the middle and tipped dark 

 blue ; secondaries violet blue, the margins of their inner webs dusky, and the 

 basal half of their outer ones dark green, shading into light blue on their outer 

 margins ; tail with the middle feathers dull green, the rest violet blue with a 

 pale sky blue band ; chin light fulvous ; throat and breast of a vinous colour, 

 with light fulvous shaft-stripes, passing into isabelline on the upper abdomen, 

 where the fulvous streaks are indistinct; lower abdomen, vent, under tail 

 coverts, and under wing coverts pale blue. Bill dusky brown ; legs orange ; 

 irides red brown ; eyelids yellow. 



Length. 13*5 inches ; wing 7*25 ; tail 5 ; bill at front PI 2 ; tarsus I. 



Hal. The whole of India and Ceylon ; the Himalayas, Nepaul, N.-W. 

 Provinces, the Punjab, Sind, S. Persia (Bushire), Beloochistan, Kutch, Kattia- 

 war, Jodhpore, Jeypore, North Guzerat, the Concans and the Deccan. 



In Sind it is a resident and breeds in holes of decayed trees, and sometimes 

 in the deep forks of acacia trees, in April and May, Eggs two in number, 

 round, pure white. 



1108. Coracias affinis, McCleil., P. Z. S. 1839, P- 164 ; Jerd., B. 



Ind.\. p. 217; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 72; Hume, Str. F. iii. p. SO; Arm- 

 strong, Str. F. iv. p. 305 ; Oates, Sir. F.v.p. 143 ; Hume and Dav., Str. F. 

 vi. p. 72 ; Oates, Str. F. vii. p. 40 ; Hume, Str. F. viiL p. 85 ; Brooks, Str. F. 

 viii. p. 467; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 69. The BURMESE ROLLER. 



Top of the head and nape green, tinged with blue ; hind neck, back, 

 scapulars and tertiaries greenish brown ; rump purplish blue ; upper tail 



