There are species of Coracias in Europe, Asia, and Africa, but none in the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Java, or Borneo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago] Reference

In such places I found a good many birds, among which were the fine cream-coloured pigeon, Carpophaga luctuosa, and the rare blue-headed roller, Coracias temmincki, which has a most discordant voice, and generally goes in pairs, flying from tree to tree, and exhibiting while at rest that all-ina-heap appearance and jerking motion of the head and tail which are so characteristic of the great Fissirostral group to which it belongs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago] Reference

Coracias in Europe, Asia, and Africa, but none in the Malay peninsula.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1] Reference

The Celebes Roller (Coracias temmincki) is an interesting example of one species of a genus being cut off from the rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1] Reference

Bird species recorded from the Tana River Primate National Reserve include the Lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudate) and the (b) Grey-headed kingfisher (Halcyon leucocephala).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mongabay.com News] Reference

In such places I found a good many birds, among which were the fine cream-coloured pigeon, Carpophaga luctuosa, and the rare blue-headed roller, Coracias temmincki, which has a most discordant voice, and generally goes in pairs, flying from tree to tree, and exhibiting while at rest that all-in-a-heap appearance and jerking motion of the head and tail which are so characteristic of the great.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1] Reference

The region’s steppes host a very diverse bird fauna, well adapted to semi-arid conditions, such as Dupont’s lark (Chersophilus duponti), shore lark (Eremophila alpestris), roller (Coracias garrulus), and black wheatear (Oenanthe leucura).    From Wordnik.com.  [Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests] Reference

Coracias.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon] Reference

Coracias garrula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Coracias g. nrrula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Coracias garrula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Among birds, the typical representatives include larks (Alaudidae), pipits (Anthus; including the field pipit, Anthus campestris), wheatears (Oenanthe), buntings (Emberiza), Eastern stock dove (Columba eversmanni), turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur), roller (Coracias garrulus), hoopoe (Upupa epops), corn bunting (Miliaria calandra), black-foreheaded shrike (Lanius minor), golden and green bee-eaters (Merops apiaster, M. superciliosus), and sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis).    From Wordnik.com.  [Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe] Reference