CORACIAS N.EVIUS. 
EUrOUS-CEOWNED EOLLEE. 
Coracias nmia, Baud, in Traite d^Orn. p. 258 (1800), Senegal^’; Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 20 (1823) ; Wagler, 
Isis, 1829, p. 737; Vieill. Nonv. Diet. xxix. p. 435 (1819) ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 68 (1850), Senegal"”; 
Strickl. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 216, Kordofan ” ; Sharpe, Ihis, 1871, p. 190 (partim), Africa"”; Antin. & 
Salvad. Viagg. Bogos, p. 63 (1873); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov, i. p. 114 (1884); Shelley, Ihis, 1885, p. 399, 
Berhera ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) vi. p. 223 (1888). 
Hairy Roller, Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 123 (1802?, partim). 
Coracias pilosa, Latham, Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. 27 (1801, partim), “ Africa ”; Vieill. Nonv. Diet. xxix. p. 430 (1819); 
Gray, Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 34 (1848); Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 167 (1850, partim) ; Beichenhach, 
Meropinse, p. 49, pi. 433. fig. 3184 (1852); Sclater, Contrih. Orn. 1852, p. 124; Hartlauh, Journ. f. Orn. 
1854, p. 1 (partim), “ Senegamhia, Angola ”; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. 1. Co. ii. p. 571 (1856); Hartl. 
Orn. W.-Afr. p. 30 (1857) ; Cah. & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 117 (1860); Antin. Cat. descr. Ucc. p. 27 (1864); 
Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 137 (1867, partim); Heuglin, Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 172 (1869), ^^N.E. 
Africa”; Antinori, Journ. f. Orn. 1866, p. 206, “^Eazoglo, Khartoum”; Heugl. Journ. f. Orn. 1868, p. 320, 
^^N.E. Africa”; Gray, Hand-1, of B. i. p. 75, no. 898 (1869); Blanf. Geol. & Zool. Ahyss. p. 319 (1870), 
^‘Abyssinia”; Einsch, Trans. Zool. Soc. vii. p. 221 (1870); Hartl. Ahh. nat. Ver. Bremen, vii. p. 110 (1881); 
Hartert, Journ. f. Orn. 1886, p. 592, Niger 
Le Rollier varie d’Afrique dans sonjeune age, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Boll, et Geais, pi. 29. 
Coracias crinita, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. pt. 2, p. 401 (1809), Africa ” ; Bonap. Coiisp. Volucr. Anisod. p. 7 (1854). 
Galgulus pilosus (Lath.), Vieill. Tahl. Encycl. et Meth. ii. p. 867 (1823) ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 117 
(1859-60), “ Senegamhia, Abyssinia.” 
Coracias nuchalis, Swainson, B. of W. Afr. ii. p. 110 (1837), ^^West Africa Bp. Consp. "Volucr. Anisod. p. 7 
(1854), W. Africa ” ; Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 62 (1845), Africa.” 
Coracias levaillantii, Bupp. Syst. Uehers. Vog. N.O.-Afr. p. 23 (1845), Abyssinia ” ; von Muller, Journ. f. Orn. 
1855, p. 5; Heuglin, Syst. Uehers. p. 18 (1856). 
Coracias ncevius, Daud., Salvin, Cat. Strichl. Coll. p. 411 (1882, partim), Kordofan, Damaraland ; Sharpe, Cat. 
B. Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 24. 
Figura unica. 
Levaillant, Hist. Nat. Boll, et Geais, pi. 29. 
Hab. North-eastern Africa, down to the Equator and Senegamhia, and the Niger on the western side of the 
continent. 
^ ad. supra olivaceus vinaceo tinctus, pileo et collo postico lilacino-rubris: fronte, superciliis et nuchse macula 
transversal! albis : uropygio lilacino-ultramarino: supracaudalibus magis lilacinis: remigibus saturate ultra- 
marinis, in pogonio externo nigro marginatis et nigro apicatis : tectricibus alarum violaceo-vinaceis, region e 
eubitali saturate lilacina: flexura, margine alari et ala spuria ultramarinis : rectricibus eentralibus nigri- 
cantibus viridi tinctis, reliquis ultramarinis, in pogonio interno nigro marginatis: mento albido : corpore subtus 
