464 C.OKA CIA8EUYRSTOMUR 



$ ad. (India). Forehead and chin rufous buff ; crown and nape rich 

 blue green ; sides of and hind-neck deep vinous ; back scapulars and 

 innermost secondaries greenish brown ; rump greenish blue ; upper tail- 

 coverts ultramarine; quills pale greenish blue, the primaries ? with an 

 ultramarine central band, and tipped with blackish blue, the secondaries 

 with terminal portion rich ultramarine ; larger wing-coverts greenish blue, 

 the lesser ultramarine ; middle tail-feathers deep green, the rest ultra- 

 marine on the basal and terminal portions, otherwise pale blue ; throat 

 and upper breast vinous purple striped with creamy buff ; lower breast 

 rufous buff; rest of under parts greenish blue ; bill blackish, but reddish 

 at the base below ; legs dusky orange yellow ; iris yellowish grey, with a 

 reddish brown inner circle, orbital skin and eyelid dull orange yellow. 

 Culmen 1'3, wing 7'2, tail 5'3, tarsus 1*0 inch. Sexes alike. 



Hob. India and Ceylon east to Calcutta, west through 

 Baluchistan to Muscat on the Persian Gulf ; Asia Minor, and 

 of accidental occurrence in Turkey ; a taxidermist's specimen 

 is said to have been obtained in England. 



In habits it does not seem to differ from C. gamilus, and like 

 that bird, it breeds in hollow trees, in holes in walls, and even 

 under the eaves of bungalows, sometimes making no nest, and 

 at others forming a sort of nest of tow, old rags, grasses, and 

 feathers, and from March to July according to locality depositing 

 3 to 5 pure white eggs like those of 0. garruhis, which average 

 1-39 by 1-13. 



EURYSTOMUS, Vieill., 1816. 



665. INDIAN BROADBILL. 

 EURYSTOMUS ORIENTALIS. 



Eurystomus orientalis (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 159 (1766) ; David and 

 Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 72 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xvii. p. 33, pi. ii. 

 fig. 1 ; Dresser, Monogr. Corac. p. 67, pis. xvii. xviii. ; Blanf. F. 

 Brit. Ind. Birds, iii. p. 107 ; Tacz. F. O. Sib. 0. p. 189 ; C. calmiyar, 

 Hodgs. Icon. Ined. in Brit. Mus. ; Passeres, pis. 10, 11 ; id. in Gray's 

 Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844) ; Sharpe, op. cit. xvii. p. 38 ; pi. ii. fig. 2 ; 

 E. Icetior, Sharpe, P.Z.S. 1890, p. 551 ; id. op. cit. xvii. p. 36. 



Phoyiong-pho, Lepch. in Darjeeling; Leuk-hotsvcy, Canton; 

 Tikong-lampay, Tjetje, Malay. ; Lallie, ^Born. ; Tiong Batu, 

 Sumatr. 



ad. (India). Upper parts deep bluish green, the crown and sides of 

 the head nearly black, upper surface of wings lighter and bluer ; quills 

 blackish, margined with blue ; a basal patch of silvery blue on the pri- 

 m aries ; tail-feathers black, margined externally at the base with deep 



