on Dr. Jerdon's f Birds of India.’ 
345 
122. Nyctiornts athertoni. 
In the Southern Tenasserim provinces (Tavai and Mergui) 
this species occurs together with N. amictus . But Dr. Cabanis 
divides the latter into N. amictus from Sumatra and Borneo and 
N. malaccensis from Malacca. If this distinction be admitted, 
the South Tenasserim species is N. malaccensis; and all that I 
have seen from the Malayan peninsula are referable to A. amictus ! 
123. CoRACIAS INDICUS. 
Dr. Cabanis (Mus. Hein. ii. p. 118) gives C. indicus, L., from 
Ceylon, as distinct from C. hengalensis, L., from Nipal, and also 
C. affinis from Tenasserim. Wherein the former differ I am not 
aware. Can one of them be the bird in the plumage of im¬ 
maturity, with narrow terminal tail-band ? or can the Nipalese 
specimen be a hybrid as Dr. Jerdon suggests? In the Malayan 
province there is no Coracias, but the genus reappears in the 
fine C. temmincki of Celebes (not New Guinea). Since the 
electric telegraph has been established in India, C. indicus has 
especially taken to the wires as a post of observation, as also has 
Dicrurus macrocercus. 
125. Coracias garrula. 
In Afghanistan, remarks Capt. T. Hutton, “ this bird is very 
common during the summer months, but departs by the end 
of autumn: it arrives at Kandahar in the middle of April ” 
(J. A. S. B. xvi. pt. ii. p. 777). 
126. Eurystomus orientalis (L.). 
The Chinese species would appear to be E. pacificus (E. 
australis , Swains.) (Ibis, 1865, p. 30), which was obtained by 
Mr. Wallace in “ Borneo and the islands eastward.” Mr. G. R. 
vinces of the Australian region, inhabiting Australia to lat. 14° S.; and it 
was observed by Mr. Wallace in Sumbawa, Lombok, Flores, Celebes, the 
Sula Islands, Temate, Timor, Mysol, and New Guinea: the specimens 
from the Sula Islands, he remarks, “ agree with those ofTernate in having- 
more brown on the head, and less blue on the breast, than the Timor and 
Lombok specimens ” (P. Z. S. 1862, p. 338). M. viridis , though common 
in Burma and Siam, does not appear to extend to the Malayan province, 
and is represented by a barely distinguishable race in Africa, the Sula 
specimens of M. orncitus exhibiting an analogous tendency to local vari¬ 
ation in that species. 
