78 ROLLER. 



the Genus ; head, and neck behind, brown ; back, rump, scapulars, 

 wing and tail coverts, green brown ; throat fine blue, down the shaft 

 of each feather a pale line ; rest of the under parts blue green ; quills 

 mixed blue and black, on the middle a pale blue spot; wings longer 

 than usual, reaching almost to the end of the tail, which is short, 

 and even at the end ; the two middle feathers green at the base, the 

 rest of the length black, the others first blue, then green, with black 

 ends ; legs yellowish ; claws black, 



Inhabits the East Indies. One of these, said to be a female, 

 measured twelve inches in length. Bill and legs red; plumage in 

 general brownish blue ; top of the head nearly brown ; middle of the 

 chin deep blue, shafts of the feathers pale ; wings, except the coverts, 

 blue green ; quills dusky, on the middle of the six outer a patch of 

 glowing, pale, greenish blue; tail even, four inches and a half long, 

 the base half dull blue, the rest dusky to the tip. 



9— SPECIOUS ROLLER. 



AMONG the drawings of Mr. Woodford is a Roller, which I 

 cannot exactly liken to any other. The bill black ; crown of the 

 head, and nape, pale dull green, streaked with brown ; chin, throat, 

 and sides under the eyes, streaked yellowish, rufous, and brown ; 

 back and scapulars rufous brown ; rump hoary blue green ; breast 

 rufous, from thence, to the vent and thighs, pale green ; shoulders 

 of the wings fine blue, the rest of the coverts mixed pale blue, the 

 inner green; beyond this again deep blue; quills deep blue, but 

 several of the outer ones pale on the outer margins in the middle ; the 

 tail three inches in length, nearly even, the two middle feathers pale 

 brown, the others deep blue, crossed about the middle with a broad 

 bar of pale blue green ; legs rufous yellow. 



