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fulvous, tinged with violet; back and scapulars the same ; with a 

 gloss of green and olive ; lower part of the back and rump blue, 

 mixed with green ; throat rufous white ; cheeks and fore part of the neck 

 violet, dashed with bluish white down the shafts ; breast rufous, 

 inclining to violet : belly, sides, thighs, under wing and tail coverts 

 blue green ; lesser wing coverts deep blue ; the greater outer ones 

 blue grey ; those of the middle blue and green mixed ; the five first 

 quills deep blue ; the middle of the outer webs blue green ; tail even, 

 the two middle feathers dull green, tinged with blue down the shafts ; 

 the rest blue for one-third from the base, then blue green, with blue 

 tips ; legs grey. 



Inhabits Bengal, and the Isle of Mindanao, where it is called 

 Cuit. It may be suspected, that this is related to the following 

 species, for the reasons therein given. 



One of these met with at Mosambique, by Mr. Salt. 



A.— Coracias Bengalen sis, Ind. Orn. i. p. 168. 2 vav. 

 Rollier tachete, Daud. Orn. ii. p. 258. 

 Spotted Roller, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 120, vav. 



Size of the Common Roller; length thirteen inches. Bill black; 

 head rufous, with a whitish mixture in the face ; general colour of 

 the plumage rufous, tinged with dirty green on the back, and 

 inclining to red beneath, marked with a longitudinal white stripe 

 on each feather; wings dull, pale green ; quills sky-blue ; tail rufous 

 brown, pretty long, and the feathers of equal lengths; legs dusky. 



A specimen of this bird is in the Museum at Paris, brought from 

 Senegal by M. GeofFroy de Villeneuve. It has been also killed in 

 Caffraria, by M. Levaillant. It is probably a young bird of the 

 Bengal Roller. 



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