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CORACIAS GARRULA. THE GARRULOUS 

 ROLLER. 



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Fig. 262. 



Coracias Garrula. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 1.59. 



Coracias Garrula. Lath. Ind. Oni. I. 168. 



Roller. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



RoUier vulgaire. Coracias garrula. Temm. Man. d'Orn. L 127. 



Garrulous Roller. Coracias garrula. Selb. lUustr. I. 117. 



Coracias garrula. Garrulous Roller. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 156. 



Head, neck, and loiver parts light bluish-green ; bach and sca- 

 pulars light brown ; smaller tving-coverts bright blue ; quills light 

 greenish-blue at the base, deep bluish-black in the rest of their ex- 

 tent ; tail greenish-blue, the outer feathers tipped with black. 



Male. — The Garrulous Roller, which is about the size of 

 the Blue-winged Jay, is moderately stout, and of rather elegant 

 proportions, but with the head large, and the feet very short. 

 The bill is rather long, stout, much higher than broad, being 

 considerably compressed, with the tip of the upper mandible 

 slender and deflected, and that of the lower narrow and oblique- 



