ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLERS AND THEIR ALLIES
THE ROLLERS
Broad-billed Rollers
The final genus to be considered embraces the Broad-billed Rollers (Eurystomus), which are distinguished by the very short, broad bill and long, rather pointed wings. They range over the whole of tropical Africa and Madagascar, as well as India, China, through the Burmese countries to Manchuria and south through the Malay Archipelago to Australia.
The Indian Broad-billed Roller (E. orientalis) is one of the smaller members of the group measuring only about ten and a half inches. It is largely greenish blue, darker on the head, and having the quills and tail black.”It is a forest bird,”says Blanford,”haunting high trees, and usually perching on a dead tree or branch, sometimes on a bamboo, whence it flies down to capture insects. It is somewhat crepuscular in its habits and is generally silent. It breeds in March and April, in holes in branches of trees, as a rule at considerable height from the ground, and lays on the bare wood usually three white eggs."
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