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Show 1890.] CORACIID.E OF THE INDIAN REGION. 551 Distribution. Locally distributed over the Burmese provinces, extending as far north as Cachar, and southward through Tenasserim and the Malayan Peninsula to Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and the Philippines.' Major Wardlaw-Ramsay records the species from the Karen Hills, but as no specimens were preserved it is possible that the bird there noticed was E. colonyx. It is also found in the Andamans, the birds from this locality being remarkable for a somewhat larger bill. 2. EURYSTOMUS LJETIOR, sp. n. Eurystomus orientalis (nee L.), Vipan, S. F. i. p. 495 (1873); Morgan, S. F. ii. p. 531 (1874); Hume, S. F. iv. p. 382 (1876); Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 285 (1878); Davison, S. F. x. p. 351 (1883). Coloration. Similar to E. orientalis, and, like that species, having the end of the tail black without any mark of purplish blue. Differs in its somewhat smaller size, blacker head, brighter blue under surface, and also in having the black secondaries washed with purplish blue near the base of the outer web. Bill deep orange-red, the tip of the upper mandible black ; orbital skin red; tarsi and feet orange-red ; feet duskier thau the tarsus ; iris hazel-brown. Length about 11 inches, tail 4, wing 7*8, tarsus 0-65, bill from gape 1-5. Distribution. The forests of Malabar (where Mr. R. W . Morgan procured specimens at Nellumbore) and the Nilghiris. It breeds in the Travancore Hills, but, according to Mr. Bourdillon, it is apparently not a rosident. In Ceylon it is an extremely rare bird, and but few instances of its occurrence are recorded by Colonel Legge. Habits. Mr. Bourdillon found a pair breeding in Travancore, where they ejected a pair of Mynahs (Eulabes religiosa) from their hole in a tree-stump at about 40 feet from the ground. The eggs are like those of the Indian Roller, but are somewhat larger, very broad ovals, pure white and fairly glossy (Hume). 3. EURYSTOMUS CALONYX. Eurystomus calonyx, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (nom nudum). Eurystomus orientalis (nee L.), Hodgs. t. c. p. 82 (1844); Gray, Cat. Hodgs. Coll. p. 55 (1846); Blyth, Cat. p. 51 (1849); Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 219 (1862); Hume, N. & E. p. 105 (1873) ; id. Cat. no. 126 (pt.). Coloration. Similar to E. orientalis. Differs in having the end of the tail black washed with purplish blue, and the whole of the black secondaries also washed with purplish blue. " Bill and feet coral-red ; iris red" (W. E. M. James). Length 11 inches, tail 3-9, wing 7-4, tarsus 0-75, bill from gape 1-45. Distribution. Extends throughout the Himalayan Terai from 37* |