Bill broad and slightly depressed; twelve tail-feathers; pectination of middle claw not comb-like; plumage not mottled, colors gaudy.
Subfamily CORACIINÆ.
Genus EURYSTOMUS Vieillot, 1816.
Bill short and broad; width of gape about equal to culmen; no rictal bristles and the bristles about bill very short; tail square.
265. EURYSTOMUS ORIENTALIS (Linnæus).
BROAD-BILLED ROLLER.
- Coracias orientalis Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 159.
- Eurystomus orientalis Hume, Oates ed., N. & E. Ind. Birds (1890), 3, 57; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 33, pl. 2, fig. 1; Hand-List (1900), 2, 47; Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1895), 3, 107, fig. 30 (head); McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 51.
Lo-ro in′-chic, Manila; lan-gac, Cagayancillo; ta-ga-tac, Calayan; Sa-lac-sá-can, Ticao.
Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Cagayancillo (McGregor); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester); Calayan (McGregor); Camiguin N. (McGregor); Cebu (Everett, Bourns & Worcester); Cuyo (Meyer); Dinagat (Everett); Fuga (McGregor); Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Leyte (Steere Exp., Everett, Whitehead); Libagao (Porter); Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor); Maestre de Campo (McGregor & Worcester); Marinduque (Steere Exp.); Masbate (Steere Exp., McGregor); Mindanao (Steere, Murray, Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, Steere Exp., Goodfellow, Celestino), Mindoro (Steere Exp., Schmacker, Everett, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, Porter); Negros (Steere, Layard, Everett, Steere Exp., Whitehead, Keay); Palawan (Everett, Platen, Whitehead, Bourns & Worcester, White); Panaon (Everett); Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Romblon (Bourns & Worcester); Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead); Sibutu (Everett); Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester); Siquijor (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Sulu (Guillemard, Bourns & Worcester); Tablas (Bourns & Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester); Ticao (McGregor); Verde (McGregor). Malay Peninsula, Burmese provinces, Cachar, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Andamans, and Nicobars.
Adult.—Forehead, crown, and sides of face black becoming dark brown on occiput, neck, ear-coverts, and sides of neck; back, rump, tail-coverts, scapulars, inner secondaries, and secondary-coverts brown, washed with dull oily green; chin black with a small white spot in the center; throat deep purplish blue with bright blue mesial streaks; remainder of under parts greenish blue, becoming more intense on crissum; primaries, outer secondaries, and rectrices glossy black, marked more or less on both webs with deep purplish blue; a wide band of light blue across middle of primaries; alula and primary-coverts black, edged with deep purplish blue. Bill and legs bright red; nails and tip of bill black. Length of a male, 280; wing, 180; tail, 96; culmen from base, 33; tarsus, 17. Length of a female, 266; wing, 190; tail, 104; culmen from base, 34; middle toe with claw, 29.