72 



Birds of Burma. 



Fam. Coraciadse. 



Rollers. 



[No. 1, 



*87. COEACIAS AFFZNTS (J. 124). 

 Coracias affinis, McClelL, Gray and Mitchell, Gen. Birds, pi. 211, not good. Hgnet-kha. 



Generally diffused, and always typically coloured; whereas specimens 

 from Tippera, Sylhet, Assam, and Lower Bengal are mostly crossed more or 

 less with C. indica, showing every gradation from one to the other. Gould's 

 figure assigned to C. affinis in his "Birds of Asia"* represents a hybrid of 

 the kind ; and C. indica also interbreeds with C. garrula in localities where 

 those two races meet. Eastward, the present species extends at least to 

 Siam, 



[Rangoon, Tonghoo, Thayet Myo {W. .#.)•] 



*88. ElTEYSTOMUS OEIEOTALIS (J. 126). 



Arakan, Tenasserim, Malacca. 



Rf 



Fam. Meropidse. 

 Beefeaters. 



*89. Meeops philippiihts (J. 118). 

 Merops philippinus, Linn. ; Gould, B. As. pt. vii. pi. 2. 



Arakan, Tenasserim, Siam, Malacca, Sumatra, Java, Philippines, South 

 China. The Philippine race does not, as has been asserted, differ in any 

 respect. 



[Tonghoo (W. R.); Thayet Myo (0.).] 



*90. M. EKYTHEOCEPHALTIS (J. 119). 

 M. erythrocephalus, Gm. ; Gould, B. As. pt. viii. pi. 13. 



Arakan, Tenasserim, Siam, Malacca. The Javanese M. quinticohr, 

 Yieillot, is distinguished by having no rufous above the black pectoral band.f 



[Eangoon, Karen nee {W. &.); Thayet Myo (F). The Malaccan 

 habitat is doubtful. For reasons already stated (Ibis, 1873, p. 301), 

 Gmelin's title, taken from Brisson, cannot be adopted. If, however, the title 

 of quinticohr, Yieillot, is to be used for the Javan race, the continental form 

 must take the name of M. leschenaulti, Yieill. In either view the necessity 

 of coining the new title of M. swinhoei, Hume, does not seem apparent.] 



* Part xxi. pi. 2. 



t P. Z. S. 1871, p. 348. 



