412 



ROLLER. 



7' 



INDIAN 



R. 



>HSCRSPT!ON, 



Place*. 



Coracias Indica, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 159. N° 2. 

 Blue Jay from the Eaft-Indies, Ediv. pi. 326. 

 £r. Muf. 



T ENGTH eleven inches. Bill dufky black,, an inch and a half 

 in length : crown of the head blue green : throat, breaft, 

 neck, and back, reddifh brown : fides of the head and throat 

 darkeft, ftreaked with white : rump and tail, and the under parts 

 from the breaft, fine ultramarine blue : the middle tail feathers 

 are green ; the outer ones blue at the bottoms and tips, andi 

 fea-green in the middle: the wings are green and blue*. 

 Inhabits Ceylon. 



8. 



GAPE 



R. 



>BSCRIPTIONV 



?LACI< 



Coracias Caffra, Lin. Syfc. i, p. 159. N° 3; 



r E have no knowledge of this, but from Linnaus, whole 

 defcription is very fhort indeed. He merely fays, that the 

 bird is blue, with the outer edge of the quills luteous 3 and thst 

 the female is of a blueifh black.. 

 Inhabits ^Ethiopia*. 



9- 

 BLUE 



R. 



Description. 



SlAC.E,. 



Br. Muf. 



ENGTH eight inches. Bill dufky : the upper parts of the 

 plumage of a pale glofiy blue, green, except the tips of the 

 wings, which are black: the under parts of the body ferru- 

 ginous. 



In. the Britijh Mufeumi from whence unknown,. 



Mr,. 



