112 WHITE-NAPED ROLLER. 



legs brown. It may be as well to add, that there 

 is in this species none of that green, either on the 

 wings or on the body, which is so conspicuous in 

 the Coracias Indica, Linn, figured by Edwards, 

 pi. 326, and in the PL Enl. 285. 



Total length to the tip of the middle tail-feather, 

 ] 3 inches ; bill, from the base, 1 \ ; ditto, from the 

 gape, 1 T %; wings, 5 \ ; middle tail-feather, 5J ; 

 tarsus, T %. 



CINNAMON-BACKED ROLLER. 



Eurystomus rubescetts* VIEILLOI. 



Rufous-cinnamon, beneath glossed with purple ; quills, and 

 greater wing-covers, mazarine blue ; under tail-covers, and 

 lateral tail-feathers, blue-green ; bill orange. 



Coracias Afra, Auctorum. Eurystomus rubescens, Vieill. 

 Ency. Meth. 871. Collaris purpurascens, Systeina Avium, 

 No. 2. 



WHERE all the species of a genus are distinguished 

 by splendid colours, variously combined, it is al- 

 most impossible to assign the pre-eminence to any 

 one. But for the inexpressible splendour of the 

 blue on the Coracias cyanogaster, we should be 

 tempted to say the bird now before us was the most 



