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ROLLER. 



'difference is the rufous violet-colour on the breaft, and the want 

 of the long outer tail feathers. The comparing the two figures 

 in the Planches enluminees, feems much to favour this opinion. 

 This laft may perhaps be a female, or a young bird ; for the long 

 tail feathers do not appear till the fecond year. 



Buffon mentions a variety, which came from Goa, and had 

 not the fulvous band on the breaft, like the laft-mentioned -, in- 

 stead of which, there was a collar of a vinaceous colour behind 

 the neck, a little below the head*. 



Coracias orientalis, Lin. Syft. i. p. 159. N° 4; 6. 



Le Rollier des Indes, Brif. oru. ii. p. 75 .pi. 7. f. 2.—J3uf. sif. iii. p. 147.— ORIENTAL 

 Pl.enl.6ig. 



'CIZE of a Jay: length ten inches and a half. The bill is yel- Description, 



lowifh, broader * at the bafe, and more hooked than in any of 

 ■the genus : the head and hind part of the neck brown: back, 

 rump, fcapulars, wing and tail coverts, green "brown-: throat fine 

 ■•blue j down the fhaft of each feather a pale line : the reft of the 

 parts beneath blue green: quills mixed blue and black; on the 

 middle a large pale blue fpot : wings longer than in other 

 Rollers : tail even at the end ; the two middle feathers green at 

 the bafe, the reft of the way black; the other feathers are firft 

 -green, then blue, with black -tips :• legs yellowifh : claws black. 



This is a native of the Eaft-Indies. Slacks. 



* Hi/}, des'oij. iii. 147, 



G & ;C foacias 



