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Garrulus neevius (nec Licht.), Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxix. p. 431 (1819). 
Galgulus ncevius (nec Licht.), Vieill. Tabl. Encycl. et Method, ii. p. 868 (1823). 
Coracias nesvia (nec Licht.)^ Wagler^ Syst. Av. Coracias, no. 3 (1827); Lesson, Traits d^Orn. p. 354 (1831). 
Coracias bengalensis indica, Temm. Tabl. Meth. p. 10 (1839). 
Coracias {Galgulus) indica (Linn.), Reichenb. Meropinse, p. 48, pi. 433. fig. 3185 (1852). 
Coracias indicus, Linn. Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 118 (1859-60) ; Dresser, B. of Europe, v. p. 149, pi. 294 
(1878); Col. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1882, p. 102; Salvin, Cat. Stricld. Coll. p. 411 (1882); Cordeaux, Ibis, 1891, 
pp. 147, 149; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 10 (1892). 
Coracias garrula (nec Linn.), Cordeaux, Zoologist, 1884, p. 185. 
Subzak, i. e. Greenish bird; Nilkant, i. e. Blue-throat, Hindustani; Tas, Mahratta; Palu pitta, i. e. Milk-bird, Tel.; 
Katta-kade, Tam.; Towe, Mhari {jide Jerdon) ; Boong-kowluiva, i. e. Smoke-bird, Sinhalese; Panang-karda, 
Tamils, North Ceylon [fide Legge) ; Kotta-killi, i. e. Palmyra Parrot, North Ceylon {fide Layard). 
Figurce notabiles. 
D’Aubenton, PL Enl. 285; Levaillant, Hist. Nat. Boll, et Geais, i. pi. 28; Edwards, Gleanings, iii. pi. 326; 
Reichenbach, Meropinse, pi. 433. fig. 3185 ; Gould, B. of Asia, part xxi. pi. 54; Dresser, B. of Europe, pi. 294. 
Hab. South-eastern portion of the Western Palsearctic Region, and the Indian Peninsula as far east as 
Calcutta; Ceylon. 
Ad. Eronte et mento rufeseenti-cervinis: pileo viridi-cseruleo : collo postico purpureo cervino : corpore supra 
viridi-fusco : uropygio viridi-ceeruleo : supracaudalibus saturate ultramarinis : remigibus primariis pallide 
cseruleis, faseia magna central! saturate ultramarin^, et nigro-cseruleo apicatis : secundariis ad basin pallide 
cseruleis et in parte apical! ultramarinis : tectricibus alarum majoribus viridi-ceeruleis, et tectricibus minoribus 
ultramarinis : gula et gutture purpureo-vinaceis cervino-striatis : pectore imo rufescenti-cervino : corpore reliquo 
subtus viridi-cseruleo : rectricibus centralibus saturate viridibus, reliquis ultramarinis fascia magna ceerulea; 
rostro nigro-fusco : iride rufescenti-fusca : pedibus sordide aurantiaco-flavis. 
Juv. Adulto similis, sed coloribus sordidioribus: pileo sordide viridi-fusco, cervino-fusco tincto : corpore supra 
sordide viridi-fuseo : corpore subtus pallidiore : gul4 et gutture vix vinaceo-purpureo tinctis. 
Adult male (Gurdara, 4th P'ebruary).—Forehead rufous buff; crown rich blue-green; hind neck 
warm rufous buff, with a purplish tinge; back, scapulars, and some of the innermost secondaries warm 
greenish brown; rump greenish blue; upper tail-coverts rich ultramarine-blue; primaries pale 
greenish blue, with a broad ultramarine central band and tipped with blackish blue; secondaries pale 
greenish blue on the basal and rich ultramarine on the terminal portion; larger wing-coverts deep 
greenish blue; lesser coverts deep ultramarine ; central rectrices deep green, the remaining rectrices 
deep ultramarine on the basal and terminal portions, otherwise pale blue ; chin warm rufous bufip; throat 
and upper breast vinous purple, striped with creamy buff; lower breast rufous buff; rest of the under¬ 
parts greenish blue: bill blackish, paling to reddish at the base beneath; legs dusky orange-yellow . 
iris grey or yellowdsh grey, with a rufescent-brown inner circle; orbital skin and eyelid dull orange- 
yellow. Total length about 13'5 inches, culmen 1'3, wing 7'2, tail 5’3, tarsus I’O. 
Adult female. —Resembles the male. 
Young female (Sikkim Terai).—Differs from the adult in being much duller in colour, the crown 
being dull greenish marked with buffy brown, the nape and back dull greenish brown, and the throat 
