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under the name of Coracias glaucurus [Eurystomus glaucurus). In the same year Boddaert (‘ Table des 
Planches Enlumineez ’) published a list of D’Aubenton’s plates, to which he gave scientific names, and 
amongst others he gave the name Coracias dbyssinicus to the bird figured on pi. 626, and Cuculus 
wneus to those on plates 587, 588, which latter stands, however, as Leptosomus discolor (Herm.). 
J. G. Gmelin, in the 13th edition of Linnaeus’s Syst. Nat. (1788), enumerates the species of 
Boilers described by Linnaeus in his 12th edition, besides several other species which do not belong 
to the genus Coracias^ and adds the following, viz. Coracias ahyssinica, Coracias senegalensis 
{C. alyssinicus), Coracias madagascariensis [Eurystomus glaucurus\ and (placed amongst the Cuckoos 
under the name of Cuculus afer) Leptosomus discolor. ^ 
In 1790 Latham gave a list of the Boilers so far as he was able, but did not add any new 
information respecting them; and ten years later Daudin, in his ‘ Traite elementaire et complet 
d’Ornithologie,’ pp. 257-268, includes nine Boilers, viz. Coracias garrula, C. ncBvia^ C. hengalensis, 
C. caudata, C. ahyssinica^ C. senegala, C. orientalis, C. madagascariensis, and C. afra, besides including 
under the genus Coracias twelve other species which do not belong to that genus. Of these Coracias 
ncevius is here first described. 
Latham, in the Supplement to his ‘ Index Ornithologicus,’ gave in 1801 the name of Coracias 
pacijica to the bird described by him in Supplement ii. to the ‘ Gen. Syn.’ p. 371; and though his 
description of the bird is decidedly bad, yet the locality given. New Holland, leaves no doubt that it 
refers to the Australian Broad-billed Boiler, especially as this is the only Boiler inhabiting Australia ; 
hence Latham’s specific name has with justice been almost universally adopted. Edwards (‘ Gleanings,’ 
iii., 1806) gives fairly good plates of two Boilers, viz. pi. 326, Blue Jay from the East Indies [C. indicus), 
and pi. 327, Swallow-tailed Indian Boiler (C. dbyssinicus) ; and I may here remark that in 1750, in his 
well-known ‘ Natural History of Birds,’ Edwards gave a very fair representation of the Common Boiler. 
Levaillant also in 1806, in his ‘Hist. Nat. Boll, et Geais,’ gives plates of the following Boilers— 
No. 25, Le Bollier a longs brins d’Afrique [Coracias abyssinicus) ] No. 26, Le Bollier a ventre bleu 
[Coracias cyanogaster) ; No. 27, Le Bollier varie des Moluques (1); No. 28, Le Bollier varie d’Afrique 
[Coracias indicus) ; No. 29, Le Bollier varie d’Afrique dans son jeune age [Coracias ncevius) ; Nos. 32 
& 33, Le Bollier vulgaire [Coracias garrulus) ; No. 34, Le Grand Bolle violet [Eurystomus glaucurus) ; 
No. 35, Le petit Bolle violet [Eurystomus afer) ; No. 36, Le petit Bolle violet a gorge bleu [Eury¬ 
stomus gularis) and Le Bolle a gorge bleu [Eurystomus orientalis) ; and No. 46 (Suppl.), Le Bollier 
Temminck [Coracias temmincJci). 
Three years later Shaw (Gen. Zool. vii. part ii. pp. 388-405) gave a list of the different species 
of Boilers known to him, nine in number, viz.: —Coracias garrula, C indica, C. alhifrons [C. abys- 
sinicus), C. angolensis [C. caudatus), C. caffra (1), C. pacifica [Eurystomus pad feus), C. orientalis 
[E. orientalis), C. madagascariensis [E. glaucurus), and C. afra [E. afer). 
In 1816 Vieillot (Analyse d’une nouvelle Orn. element.) established two new genera: p. 28, 
Leptosomus (type L. discolor), and p. 37, Eurystomus (type E. orientalis). 
