CORACIAS TEMMINCKL 
TEMMINCE’S EOILEE. 
Le Rollier Temminck, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Rolliers et Geais^ iii. Suppl. p. 46. fig. G (1806). 
Garrulus temminckii, VieilloE Nouv. Diet. xxix. p. 435 (1819). 
Galgulus temmincki, VieilloE Tabl. Encycl. et Method, ii. p. 869 (1823). 
Coracias temminckii (Vieill.)^ Wagler^ Syst. Av., Coracias, no. 5 (1827); Dumont, Diet. Sc. Nat. xlvi. p. 183 
(1827) ; Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 62 (1845); Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 167 (1850) ; Reiclienb. Meropinee, p. 51 
(1852) ; Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. p. 68 (1854); Sclater, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 155 (1858) ; G. B. Gray, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 189; id. Cat. B. of New Guinea, pp. 18, 54 (1859) ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein, 
ii. p. 118 (1859-60) ; G. B. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 433; Wallace, Ibis, 1864, p. 41; Pinsch, Neu- 
Guinea, p. 160 (1865) ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 138 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-1, of B. i. p. 75, 
no. 899 (1869); Gould, B. of Asia, pt. xxi. (1869); Wallace, Malay Archipelago, i. p. 273 (1869) ; Walden, 
Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 433 (1872); A. B. Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 59; Salvadori, Orn. Papuas. i. p. 512 
(1880) ; Guillemard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 546; Blasius, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. ii. p. 242 (1885), iii. p. 88 
(1886) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 26 (1892). 
Coracias papuensis, Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. de PAstrolabe, Zool. i. p. 221 (1830); Beccari, Ibis, 1876, p. 247. 
Rollier d’Urville, Quoy & Gaimard, op. cit. Atlas, pi. 16. 
Coracias [Galgulus] temminckii (Vieill.), Beichenbach, Meropinse, p. 51 (1852). 
Coraciaspileata, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 50 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. Volucr. Anisod. p. 7 (1854). 
Eurystomuspileatus (Blyth), Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 316. 
Malayan Kapala-hiru, i. e. Blue-bird; Alfuros name of the Minahassa Patch-rokos [fide Meyer), Tonkaka [fide 
Guillemard). 
Figurm notahiles. 
Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. de PAstrolabe, pi. 16; Beichenbach, Meropinse, pi. 434. fig. 3187; Gould, B. of Asia, 
part xxi. 
Hab. Celebes. 
Ad. pileo turcino-caeruleo viridi tincto : nucha, collo postico, capitis lateribus, mento et corpore subtus nigricanti- 
cseruleis ultramarine tinctis : dorso scapularibus et secundariis intimis saturate viridis olivaceo tinctis : uropygio 
ultramarino : supracaudalibus turcino-cseruleis : alis et cauda saturate ultramarinis, primariis in pogonio interno 
nigro marginatis : gula ultramarina pallidiore striata : crisso et subcaudalibus saturate ultramarinis: rostro 
nigro : pedibus nigro-fuscis : iride fusc^. 
Juv. sordidior : pileo pallidiore: corpore subtus fumoso-nigro, abdomine ultramarino lavato: guR, gutture et 
pectore albido striatis. 
Adult male (Celebes).—Crown pale turquoise-blue tinged with green; nape, hind neck, sides of 
the head and neck, and entire underparts blackish blue tinged with rich ultramarine; lower neck, 
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