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ROLLER. 



ABYSSINIAN 

 R. 



Le Rollier d'Abyffinie, Buf. cif. iii. p. 

 ■ PL enl. 626. 



143. 



Description. 'THE bill of this bird is black, and the tip of the upper man- 

 dible much bent : the fides' of the head, from the noftrils to 

 a little beyond the eyes, are white 5 the reft of the head, neck, and 

 under parts of the body, of a fine green : the wing coverts are of 

 the fame colour, but the moulders are of a fine deep blue ; the 

 greater quills are of this laft colour : the back and fecond quills 

 are orange brown : the rump of a deep blue : the two middle tail 

 feathers are dufky, with a glofs of blue, efpecially down the mid- 

 dle; the outer feathers blue green; the outmoft feather five- 

 inches longer than any of the others, and, as far as it exceeds them 

 in length, of a fine deep blue : the legs red brown. The co= 

 lours of this bird are remarkably brilliant. 

 Place. Inhabits Abyffmia. 



SENEGAL 

 R. 



Description, 



Rollier du Senegal, Buf. cif. iii. p. 143. — PI. enl. 326. 

 Swallow-tailed Indian Roller, Ed<w. glean. 327. 



HPHIS is rather lefs than the common Jay. The bill black : the 

 whole fpace round the bafe of the bill, as far as the eyes, or 

 what may be termed the face, white : the head, and under parts 

 of the body, the upper parts of the wings, and tail, blueifh fea- 

 green: the flioulders and quills, as in the laft, of a deep blue; 

 and the outer tail feathers as long as in that bird : the hind part 

 of the neck and the back of a reddifh brown : the legs of a red- 

 difli flefh-colour. 



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