188 CLASS AVES. 



Oriental Roller. (C Or'ientalis. 619-) 



Head and neck, broMTi ; green-brown above ; blue- 

 green underneath ; quills, blue and black ; size of a 

 jay. East Indies. 



Madagascar Roller. (C. Madagascariensis. Enl. 

 501.) 



Plumage in general, rusty purplish-brown ; rump and 

 vent, blue-green ; tail, blue-green ; tip, blackish. 



African Roller. (C. Afra. Lath.) 



Pale cinnamon above ; paler beneath ; quills, blue ; 

 tail, tipped black. Eight and a half inches. Africa.* 



Birds of Paradise. (Paradisea. L.) 



Have, like the corvi, a straight, compressed, strong, 

 toothless bill, and the nostrils covered j but the in- 

 fluence of the climate they inhabit, and which ex- 

 tends itself to the birds of many genera, has given 

 the feathers which cover the nostrils a sort of velvet 

 texture, and frequently a metallic brilliancy, while it 

 has, at the same time, greatly developed the feathers 

 of many parts of the body. These birds are origin- 

 ally from New Guinea and the neighbouring islands. 

 At first they were only to be obtained from the bar- 

 barians of those countries, who prepared them for 

 making fans, and cut off the feet and wings, so that 



* M. Vieillot, who calls this genus Eukystomus, has placed here: 



Eurysiomus CyanocoUis. Vail. O. de Par. pi. 96. 



Eurystomus Gularis. Vieil. 



Eurystomus Purpurascens, Vieil. Vail. Ois, de Par. 35. 



