CORACIAS MOSAMBICUS. 
OLIVE-CEOWNED EOLLEE. 
Hairy Roller, Lath. Geu. Synop. SuppL ii. p. 123 (1802 ‘I, partim)^ Africa.^^ 
Coracias pilosa, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. 27 (1801, partim), Africa""; Bp. Consp. Geu. Av. i. p. 167 (1850, 
partim) ; Hartlaub, Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 1 (partim), Senegambia, Angola""; Gurney, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 2; 
Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 137 (1867, partim) ; Chapman, Trav. in S. Afr., App. p. 408 (1868), 
S. Africa""; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 461, Natal""; Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 569, Angola""; 
Bocage, J. Ac. Sc. Lish. v. pp. 35, 50 (1874), Ambete ’"; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1876, p. 406, Angola."’ 
Coracias nuchalis (nec Swainson), Layard, B. of S. Afr. p. 60 (1867), ‘"S. Africa"’; Chapman, Trav. in S. Afr., 
App. p. 408 (1868), S. Africa."" 
Coracias nmvia (nec Daudin), Dumont, Diet. Sc. Nat. xlvi. p. 179 (1827) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1871, p. 190; Anders. B. 
of Damara Land, p. 54 (1872), Damara Land""; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 363, Matabili""; Sharpe in Layard"s 
B. of S. Afr. p. 103 (1875), S. Africa""; Bocage, J. xAc. Sc. Lisb. vi. p. 63 (1877), Quillengues ’"; id. op. 
cit. vi. p. 194 (1878), ^‘Caconda""; Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 290, ^'Transvaal’"; Bocage, Orn. d"Angola, p. 83 
(1881), Angola"’; Sharpe in Oates" Matabele Land, p. 302 (1881); Shelley, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 566, 
Dar-es-Salaam""; Ayres, Ibis, 1886, p. 284, Limpopo""; Symonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 327, Orange Tree 
State."" 
Coracias ncevius (nec Daudin), Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 243, Matabili""; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 411 (1882, 
partim), Kordofan, Damaraland."" 
Coracias ncevia levaillantii, Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 399, “ S. Africa."" 
Coracias mosambicus, Dresser, Ibis, 1890, p. 386. 
Coracias olivaceiceps, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 25 (1892). 
Coracias mosamhica, Dresser,"" Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. AIus. xvii. p. 26, syn. (1892). 
Chegala, Mataheli; Ubiaganga, Chobia, at Caconda; Ambeta Cicoca, Kalianana, at Humbe; Hohobia, or Soba, 
i. e. Chief (Anchieta). 
Figura nulla. 
Hab. East Africa, from the Orange Pree State to at least 6° S. lat.; "West Africa, from Togoland down to 
South Africa. 
Ad. C. TKEvio similis, sed pileo olivaceo nec rufescente, corpore supra magis viridi-olivaceo, et gula, gutture cum 
pectore magis pupureo lavatis. 
Adult male (Zambesi).—Resembles Coracias ncevius, but has the crown olivaceous, not red ; the 
upper parts of a somewhat darker greenish-olivaceous tinge, and the throat and breast washed with 
purple, these parts being therefore darker than in C. ncevius : bill black ; feet dull greenish yellow; 
iris ashy brown. Total length about 4-5 inches, culmen IB, wing 7‘3, tail 6*0, tarsus I-O. 
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