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Yezzo (Whitely, Ibis, 1867, p. 195), and is common near Yokohama, 

 if we may judge by the fact that there are twenty skins in the 

 Pryer collection. It has also been obtained near Nagasaki by 

 Mr. Ringer, who has presented an example from that locality to the 

 Norwich Museum. To the north its range extends through Man- 

 churia to the valley of the Amoor, but further west in Siberia its 

 place is taken by the European species. To the south its range 

 extends to South-east Mongolia, China, Cochin China, and Burma 

 to Nepal. 



It is probably only a summer visitor to Japan, breeding on the 

 mountains, and passing through the plains near Yokohama in May 

 and October (Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 231). It is abun- 

 dant on Fuji-yaraa in summer, when its cry chuck, chuck, chuck, is 

 constantly heard in the still evening air and sometimes before day- 

 break. In autumn it is said to be silent (Jouy, Proc. United States 

 Nat. Mus. 1883, p. 310). 



It lays two eggs on the ground (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. 

 Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 141). Examples in the Pryer collection exactly 

 resemble the smaller varieties of the eggs of the European Goatsucker. 



160. EURYSTOMUS ORIENTALIS. 



(BROAD-BILLED ROLLER.) 



Coracias onentaKs, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 159 (1766). 



The Broad-billed Roller is about the size of the European Roller 

 (wing from carpal joint 8 inches), but it has a wider bill and a 

 shorter tail. Its general colour is blue, violet on the wings and 

 tail, and greenish on the body. 



Figures : Daubenton, Planches Enluminees, no. 619. 



The claim of the Broad-billed Roller to be regarded as a Japanese 

 bird rests upon one example procured at Nagasaki in May 1879 

 (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 137), and a 

 second obtained on the most southerly group of the Loo-Choo 

 Islands (Stejneger, Proc. United States Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 402). 



It inhabits most of the Oriental Region, and must be regarded as 

 a tropical species which occasionally wanders as far as the valley of 

 the Amoor. 



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