4. COEACIAS. 21 



6. Goracias caudatus. 



Le Rollier d' Angola, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 72, pi. vii. fig. 1 (1760) ; 

 Daub. PI. Enl. iii. pi. 88; Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 144 

 (1775). 

 Coracias caudata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 160 (1766) ; Gm. Syst. Nat. 

 i. p. 380 (1788) ; Oray, Gen. B. i. p. 62 (1845) ; Des Murs, 

 Iconogr. Orn. pi. 28 (1846); Gray, Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus. i. 

 p. 34 (1848) ; Bj). Consp. i. p. 167 (1850) ; Beiclmib. Handb., 

 Merop. p. 47, Taf. 432. fig. 3182 (1852) ; Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852, 

 p. 124; Strickl. ^ Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 154; Kartl. Orn. W.- 

 Afr. p. 30 (1857) ; Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 116 (1860) ; 

 Hartl. J.f. O. 1861, p. 104 ; Sel. P. Z. 8. 1862, p. 12, 1864, p. 110 ; 

 Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 324 ; Hartl. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 821; Sekl. Mus. 

 Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 135 (1867) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 61 

 (1867) ; Gurnet/, Ibis, 1868, p. 461 ; Cab. in Von der Becken's Reis. 

 iii. p. 34 (1869) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 569 ; Layard, Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 364 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 76, no. 904 (1869) ; Finsch 8f 

 Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 154 (1870); S/mrpe, Ibis, 1871, p. 154; 

 Gurneyin Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 53 (1872) ; Buckley, Ibis. 1874, 

 p. 364; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 198; Cab. J.f. O. 1878, p'. 234; 

 Fischer Iii Beichen. J.f. 0. 1878, p. 254; Ayres,Ibis, 1879, p. 290; 

 Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 84 (1881) ; Sharpe in Oates' Matabele- 

 Land, p. .302 (1881) ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881,. p. 566; id. P. Z. S 

 1882, p. 302 ; id. Ibis, 1882, p. 243.; Fischer, Zeitsch. i. p. 359 

 (1884) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard' s B. S. Afr. pp. 104, 805 (1884) ; 

 Boehm, J.f. O. 1885, p. 57 ; Fischer, J. f. O. 1886, p. 127 ; Ayres, 

 Ibis, 1886, p. 284, 1887, p. 50; Matsch'ie, J.f. 0. 1887, p. 152; 

 SchaloWf t.c. p. 236; Tristr. Ibis, 1889, p. 225; F)nin, J.f. O. 

 1891, p.59(Ugogo). 



Long-tailed Roller, Lath. Geti. Syn. i. pt. 1, p. 409 (1781). 



Coracias angolensis, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 394, pi. 51 (1809). 



Coraciura caudata, Bp. Co?isp. Valuer . Anisod. p. 7 (1854). 



Coracias npevia {nee Daud.), Biatic. Spec. Zool. Mosamb. fasc. 14. 

 p. 49 (1865). 



Coracias abyssinica {nee Bodd.), Chapm. Trav. S. Afr. ii. App. 

 p. 408 (1868). 



Adult male. Forehead and eyebrow hoary white ; hend and back 

 of neck pale glossy green, the feathers pale brown at base, giving a 

 fnscous appearance to the plumage ; back and scajailars pale drab, 

 washed with green ; lower portion of the back and rump splendid 

 cobalt, inclining to vivid green on the upper tail-coverts ; greater 

 coverts greenish cobalt, some of the innermost tinged with ultra- 

 marine ; quills black, the basal portion silvery-greenish cobalt, 

 the primary-coverts also of this colour ; primaries externally edged 

 with deep ultramarine, inclining to cobalt towards the extremit}' of 

 the feather ; some of the secondaries rather broadly washed with 

 cobalt, the innermost drab like the back ; general colour of the tail 

 vivid greenish cobalt, the centre feathers olive-green, the next ones 

 tinted with this colour towards the tip, and so on towards the outer- 

 most, each feather being gradually less stained with green ; the two 

 outer rectrices much elongated and narrowed, the elongated portion 

 gradually verging from dark blue into deep black ; chin hoary white ; 

 cheeks, throat, and upper portion of the breast rich vinaccous, the 



