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appearing streaked; back deep brown ; wing coverts fine deep blue; 

 on the middle of the wing a pale blue, irregular patch ; rest of the 

 quills deep blue, changing to black near the ends ; under parts from 

 the breast deep blue ; tail bluish sea-green, with two elongated 

 outside feathers, as in the last described ; bill black, with a band of 

 black passing through the eyes, and ending in a point behind; 

 legs stout, black. 



7— PACIFIC ROLLER. 



Coracias pacifica, Ind. Orn. Sup: p: xxvii. 

 Pacific Roller, Gen. Syn. Sup.u. 371. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill and legs red ; head and neck 

 chestnut ; down the middle of the chin and throat black, bounded 

 on each side with a line of white ; the lower part of the neck, from 

 the chestnut, changes to green, and from thence all beneath paler 

 green ; wings fine blue ; base of the quills white, forming a spot 

 when expanded ; rump, and upper tail coverts, green ; the tail, and 

 ends of the quills, dusky blue black. 



Inhabits Port Jackson, in New South Wales. 



8— ORIENTAL ROLLER. 



Coracias Orientalis, Ind. Orn. i. 170. Lin. i. 159. Gm. Lin. i. 379. Daud. ii. 261. 



Shaw's Zool. vii. 403. 

 Galgulus Indicus, Bris. ii. 75. t. 7. f. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 175. 

 Colaris Orientalis, Lin. Trans, xiii: p. 162. 

 Rollier des lndes, Buf. iii. 147. PI. enl. 619. 

 Colaris, Rolle, Tern. Man. Anal. p. liii. 

 Oriental Roller, Gen. Syn. i. 411. Nat. Misc. pi. 509. 



SIZE of a Jay ; length ten inches and a half, breadth twenty-two. 

 Bill pale yellow, broad at the base, and more hooked than in any of 



