Oriental dollarbird, dollar roller (Eurystomus orientalis)

Query: British birds

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Subject:	Oriental dollarbird, dollar roller (Eurystomus orientalis)
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Description
Eurystomus orientalis, and Eurystomus calonyx = Eurystomus orientalis calonyx, Oriental Dollarbird
Date 1892
Source Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum. Volume 17
Author John Gerrard Keulemans (1842–1912) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gerrard_Keulemans
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eurystomus2Keulemans.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.

British birds
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