R- O L L. E: R. 409 



This is the defcription of Edwards's bird, which came from Place. 



Ceylon ; and anfwers likewife to that figured in the Planches enlu- 

 minees, faid to come from Senegal. 



This is, moft likely, a variety of the laft-defcribed. 



Coracias caudata, L'm.SyJi.i. p. 160. N° 6. 4. 



Le Rollier d' Angola,' Brif. orn. ii. p. 72. t. 7. f. 1. LPNG-T AILED 



— — — ■ .. Buf. oij, iii. p. 144. — PL enL 88. 



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CIZE of a Jay : length fifteen inches and a half. The bill is an Description, 



inch and a half long, and of a blackifh colour : the hind parts 

 of the head and neck are green : upper parts of the back and ■ 

 fcapulars fulvous glofied with green : the lower part of the back, 

 rump, and wing coverts, fine blue : the upper tail coverts blue 

 green : the throat, fore part of the neck, and breaft, violet; but the 

 feathers on the two firft have a whitifh ftreak down the fliaft : the 

 belly, fides, thighs, under tail and wing coverts, fea green : 

 quills the fame for half their length 5 the end half, deep blue on 

 the outer webs ; the fhafts and inner webs black : the two mid- 

 dle feathers of the tail are deep green ; the reft of the feathers 

 blue green ; the outer ones on each fide of twice the length of the 

 others, and the part which exceeds deep blue; the fhafts of all 1 

 black : the legs are grey ; and the claws blackifh, 



This inhabits Angola. . ?lace. 



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