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THE RED-BREASTED ROLLER. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill ftrait, bending a little towards the end, edges cultrated. 



Nostrils narrow and naked. 



Toes three forward -, divided to their origin ; one backward. 



Petviant. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Black Rollerj v/ich crimfon throat and bread:. 



TFIIS bird, hitherto undefcribed, in its general appearance and colour, 

 bears a ftriking refemblance to the Mufcicapa rubricollis, or purple- 

 throated Flycatcher ; but is confiderably fuperior in fize. It is not mucJi lels 

 than a comnnon crow. Its colour is an uniform black, with a flight blueifh 

 glofs on the back and wings. The beak is flrong, broadifli at the bafe, and 

 {lightly notched or emarginated at the tip. The lower mandible is of a palilh 

 colour towards the point. On each fide the bafe of the upper mandible are 

 feven vibrilTae or hairs, which are of a flattened form at their lower part, and 

 rife upwards in a curved diredion. The fore-part of the neck, from about 

 half an inch below the beak, to tl^e bottom of the bread, is of a very rich 



bright 



