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Holes in old trees, (scantily lined with a few dry leaves and 
feathers, decayed wood, or a little grass,) are their favourite lay- 
ing places, but holes in old buildings, and clefts in rocks are 
sometimes resorted to. [remember Mr. Brookes telling me, that 
in his office at Etawah two Rollers (C. Indica) had chosen a 
is from 3°6 to 6 oz. <A particularly large female from Saugor, weighed 7°5 
ounces. 
Description. Feet, dingy greenish, front of toes sparsely clad with 
whity brown bristles. Claws, very sharp, blackish horny ; inner edge of mid 
claw a good deal dilated. Papille of soles, small distinet, soft. IZrides 
bright pale yellow. Bild, horny green. Cere, dusky, much swollen above 
the nares. Tongue, obtusely hastate ; slightly membraneous and emarginate 
at the tip. 
Plumage. Facial disk, which is nearly obsolete, partially defined, by a 
dark, earthy, brown tipped, row of feathers, running right across the throat 
and upwards behind the ear coverts. The general colour of the facial disk or 
space enclosed, by the above line, including apex of forehead, and broad 
supercilium, white, but the ear coverts themselves are very pale brown, 
obscurely barred with darker brown; there is a dusky patch in front and 
below the anterior angle of the eye; most of the bristle-like feathers of the 
prominent lore tufts are only dingy white, and the naked tips of their elon- 
gated shafts are dark brown. Middle ot forehead, top and back of head, and 
sides of ditto behind facial disk line, dull earthy brown, the feathers with 
pairs of small white spots, or narrow incomplete white bars. These spots are 
most numerous, on the forehead, and largest on the sides of the head. The 
back of the neck is generally the same dull earthy brown, but at the base of 
the occiput, and down the back of neck, there is an ill-defined and mottled, 
white, triangular patch, owing to some of the feathers being broadly tipped, 
or marked near the tip, with white; this is only clearly seen, when the neck 
is extended. The neck in front, below the brown disk line, is white, and 
this colour extends as a sort of collar, backwards, but does not quite meet at 
the back. The whole back, scapulars, upper tail coverts, and wing coverts are 
the same dull earthy brown, the upper back nearly spotless, the feathers of the 
other parts with numerous pairs of white spots towards the tips and more or 
less imperfect white bars higher up, which latter are hidden by the overlap- 
ping of the feathers. The ground colour of the tail feathers, and quills, is the 
same, as that of the back. The tail feathers have about four transverse 
white bars, narrow on the centre tail feathers, and the outer webs of the 
lateral ones, but broad, and somewhat scalkop-like on the inner webs of the 
latter. The first five quills are notched on the inner webs, the second 
to the fourth slightly emarginate, on the outer ones. The first five pri- 
maries, and the secondaries, have several white spots on the outer webs, 
and the last five primaries exhibit traces of the same, and all (but the first five 
primaries below the notches, where there are only faint traces of them) 
have large, broad, pure white scallops, on the inner webs, corresponding 
with the white spots, on the outer webs, which, with them may be consi- 
dered, portions of incomplete bars. ‘The base of the neck in front the 
breast, sides, flanks, and thigh coverts, white, the feathers with subterminal, 
brown bands and triangular spots, which at the base of the neck predo- 
minate, owing to the overlapping of the feathers, and form a sort of 
mottled zone. The middle of the abdomen, vent, lower tail coverts, and 
tarsi feathers, a slightly dingy white. 
