COKACIIDiE. 
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Order CORACHFORMES. 
Family CORACIID^E. 
Genus CORACIAS L. 
Coracias Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. vol. i. p. 107, Jan. 1st, 1758. 
Type (by subsequent designation, Gray, 1855, p. 12) : Coracias 
garrulus L. 
Coracias temmincki (V.)* (17-26.) 
Oalgulus temmincki Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. vol. xxix. 
p. 435, 1819: Celebes. (Fig. Dresser, pi. 13.) 
Coracias papnensis Quoy et Gaimard, Yoy. Astrol., Zool. vol. i. p. 220, 1830, 
pi. 16 : Dorey, New Guinea, error = Celebes ? 
Coracias pileata Bonaparte, Consp. Yol. Anis. p. 7 (Ateneo Ital. vol. ii. no, 11, 
p. 317), 1854 : new name for temmincki Y. 
Distr. —Celebes. 
Genus EURYSTOMUS Vieillot. 
Eurystomus Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith. p. 37, April 14th, 1816. 
Tvpe (by monotypy) : tl Rolle des Indes Buff.” —Coracias orien¬ 
talis Linne. 
Colams Cuvier, R£*gne Anim. vol. i. p. 401, Dec. 7th, 1816. Type (by subsequent 
designation, Salvadori, Ornit. Pap. e Mol. pt. i. p. 503, 1880): C . orientalis 
LinnA 
Hirundolanius Ruller, Manual Birds New Zeal. p. 7 (pref. Jan. 2nd), 1882, ex 
Clarke MS. Type (by monotypy): Hirundolanius coaruleus Buller =Eury* 
stomas pacijicus Latham. 
Eurystomus orientalis (Linn6). 
Distr .—India to Australia, New Guinea, and Solomon Islands. 
Eurystomus orientalis orientalis (Linn6). (17-33.) 
Coracias orientalis Linn6, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. p. 159, (pref. May 24th) 
1766: India. Extra-lanital. (Fig. Dresser, Monogr. pis. 17 & 
18.) 
Distr .—India to Celebes. 
Eurystomus orientalis pacificus (Latham). (17-36.) 
Coracias pacifica Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl. p. xxvii, (after May) 
1801, based on Watling drawing no. 64: New South Wales. 
(Fig. Gould, ii. pi. 17 ; Dresser, Monogr. pi. 19.) 
