1890. J CORACIID.E OF THE INDIAN REGION. 551 



Distribution. Locally distributed over the Burmese provinces, 

 extending as far north as Cachar, and southward through Tenas- 

 serim and the Malayan Peninsula to Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and 

 the Philippines. Major Wardlaw-Ramsay records the species from 

 the Karen Hills, but as no specimens were preserved it is possible 

 that the bird there noticed was E. mlonyx. It is also found ia the 

 Andamans, the birds from this locality being remarkable for a 

 somewhat larger bill. 



2. EUETSXOMUS L^TIOR, Sp. U. 



Eurystomus orientalis (nee L.), Vipan, S. F. i. p. 495 (1873) ; 

 Morgan, H. P. ii. p. 531 (1874); Hume, S. F. iv. p. 382 (1876); 

 Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 285 (1878) ; Davison, S. P. s. p. 351 (1883). 



Coloration. Similar to E. orientalis, and, like that species, having 

 the end of the tail black without any mark of purplish blue. Differs 

 in its somewhat smaller size, blacker head, brighter blue under 

 surface, and also in having the black secondaries washed with 

 purplish blue near the base of the outer web. 



Bill deep orange-red, the tip of the upper mandible black ; orbital 

 skin red ; tarsi and feet orange-red ; feet duskier than the tarsus ; 

 iris hazel-brown. 



Length about 11 inches, tail 4, wing 7-8, tarsus 0-65, biU from 

 gape 1-5. 



Distribution. The forests of Malabar (where Mr. R. W. Morgan 

 procured specimens at iSTellumbore) and the Nilghiris, It breeds 

 in the Travancore Hills, but, according to Mr. Bourdillon, it is 

 apparently not a resident. In Ceylon it is an extremely rare 

 bird, and but few instances of its occurrence are recorded by 

 Colonel Legge. 



Habits. Mr. Bourdillon found a pair breeding in Travancore, 

 where they ejected a pair of Mynahs (Eulabes religiosa) from their 

 hole in a tree-stump at about 40 feet from the ground. The eggs 

 are like those of the Indian Poller, but are somewhat larger, very 

 broad ovals, pure white and fairly glossy {Hume). 



3. Etjetstomtts calonyx, 



Eurystomiis calonyx, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (nom 

 nudum). 



Eurystomus orientalis (nee L.), Hodgs. t. c. p. 82 (1844) ; Gray, 

 Cat. Hodgs. Coll. p. 5b (1846) ; Blyth, Cat. p. 51 (1849) ; Jerd. B. 

 Ind. i. p. 219 (1862); Hume, JST. & E. p. 105 (1873) ; id. Cat. no. 

 126 (pt.). 



Coloration. Similar to E. orientalis. Differs in having the end of 

 the tail black washed with purplish blue, and the whole of the black 

 secondaries also washed with purplish blue. " Bill and feet coral- 

 red ; iris red " ( W. E. M. James). 



Length 11 inches, tail 3*9, wing 7-4, tarsus 0-75, biU from gape 

 1-45. 



Distribution. Extends throughout the Himalayan Terai from 



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