74 ROLLER. 



3— LONG-TAILED ROLLER. 



Coracias caudata, Ind. Orn.'i. 169. Lin. Syst.i. 160. Gm. Lin.i. 380. Bor. Nat. ii. 



112. Daud. ii. 260. 

 Coracias Angolensis, Shaw's Zool. vii. 394. t. 51. 

 Galgulus Angolensis, JBm.ii. 72. pi. 7. f. 1. Id. Svo. i. 174. 

 Rollier d'Augola, £«/. iii. 144. PI.enl.8S. 

 Long-tailed Roller, Gen. Syn. i. 409. 



LENGTH fifteen inches and a half. Bill blackish ; hind head 

 and neck green ; back and scapulars fulvous, glossed with green • 

 wing coverts, lower part of the back, and rump fine blue ; throat, 

 neck before, and breast violet, the feathers on the two first marked with 

 a streak of white clown the shafts; belly, sides, thighs, under wing, 

 and tail coverts sea-green ; quills the same for half the length, the 

 remainder deep blue on the outer webs ; shafts and inner webs black; 

 tail feathers even at the end, except the outmost, which is twice the 

 length of the others ; the two middle ones are deep green ; the others 

 blue-green, and the outer one, as far as it is longer than the rest, 

 deep blue ; legs grey. 



Inhabits Angola, in Africa, and probably differs from the last 

 only in sex, in being a young male, which does not gain the 

 elongated outer tail feathers till the second year. 



4— INDIAN ROLLER. 



Coracias Indica, Ind. Orn. i. 170. Lin. i. 159. Gm. Lin. i. 378. Daud. ii. 262. 



Shaw's Zool. vii. 390. 

 Blue Jay from the East Indies, Edw. pi. 326. 

 Indian Roller, Gen. Syn. i. 412. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill black ; crown of the head blue 

 green ; throat, neck, breast, and back reddish brown ; sides of the 



