Oriental dollarbird, dollar roller (Eurystomus orientalis)

Query: osteologia avium

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Subject:	Oriental dollarbird, dollar roller (Eurystomus orientalis)
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Oriental dollarbird, dollar roller (Eurystomus orientalis)

Description
Skeleton of Eurystomus orientalis
Date 1869
Source Eyton, TC (1867) Osteologia Avium. Plates. R. Hobson, Wellington.
Author J. Erxleben
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EurystomusOrientalisSkeleton.jpg

The dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis), also known as the Oriental dollarbird or dollar roller, is a bird of the roller family, so named because of the distinctive blue coin-shaped spots on its wings. It can be found in south-west Pacific and east Asia from northern Australia to the Japan archipelago and India.

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