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 | | One species, C. temmincki, seems to be peculiar to Celebes and the neighboring islands, but otherwise the rest are natives of the Ethiopian or Indian regions. |
 | | Allied to Coracias is the genus Eurystomus with some half-dozen species, of similar distribution, but one of them, E. pacijicus, has a wider range, for it inhabits Australia and reaches Tasmania. |
 | | Madagascar has four or five very remarkable forms which have often been considered to belong to the family Coraciidae; and, according to A. Mime-Edwards, no doubt should exist on that point. |
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