86 ROLLER, 



18. Br. Muf. 



AFRICAN R. 



Description, f ENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill very flout, and bent 

 at the tip; the colour yellow : plumage on the upper parts 

 pale cinnamon , beneath, fine pale reddifh lilac : vent, and under 

 the tail, pale blue green : quills of a deep blue; the margins of 

 the inner v^ebs, and the tips, bkck :.tail blackifh blue ; the ends 

 of the two middle feathers black, the others pale blue green, tip- 

 ped with black : legs' brown. 

 Place. The above is in fine prefervation in the Britijh Mufeum, and was 



brought from Africa. Ic feems a very flout bird, in refped: to its 

 length. 



,19. 



ED R. ■ ClZEofaJ^y. Bill red : head and neck black; but the hind 

 Description-. head is greyith : the upper part of the body is blueifh purple; 



the under, white : quills brown : the two middle tail feathers 

 blue, and the refl purplifl:i ; all of them tipped with white: 

 •legs red. 

 . Place. Suppofed to inhabit China^ as I met with it among fome fine 



drawings from that country. 



20. 



R. C IZE of a Jay : length feventeen inches. Bill black : head and 



Desgriptiok. neck the fame: back, and part of the wing.coverts, tawny 



brown; the reflof the coverts, and fecondaries, white: greater quills 



- black : breaft and belly afh-colour : tail very long, cuneiform ; 



colour of it pale grey, with the end black : legs afh-colour. 



Place. Inhabits India. — From the drawings of Lady Impey, in which 



it is called the Vagabond. 



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