ROLLER. 79 



A second of these answered to the same description, with the 

 addition of two elongated feathers of double the length of the others, 

 and these are green. How far the above birds have connexion with 

 other long-tailed Rollers, 1 am at a loss to determine, but certainly 

 they do not exactly coincide with any. In the wings and outer tail 

 feathers they are most like the Bengal Species. 



10— CAPE ROLLER, 



Coracias Caffra, Ind.Om.i. 170. Lin.\. 159. Grit. Lin. i. 379. Daud. ii. 262. 



Shaw's Zool. vii. 398. 

 Cape Roller, Gen. Syn. i. 412. 



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THIS bird is said to be blue, with the outer edges of the qnills 

 luteous. The female of a bluish black. 



This very slight description, given by Linnaeus, informs us in 

 addition, that the bird inhabits Ethiopia. 



11.— MADAGASCAR ROLLER. 



Coracias Madagascariensis, Ind. Orn. i. 170. Gm. Lin. i. 379. Daud. ii. 2G3. Shaw's 



Zool. vii. 404. 

 Rollier de Madagascar, Buf. iii. 148. PL enl. 501. 

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

 Madagascar Roller, Gen. Syn. i. 413. 



SIZE of the common Roller ; length ten inches. Bill stout at 

 the base, rather short, and yellow ; plumage in general rusty, purplish 

 brown ; rump and vent blue green ; quills deep blue above, and blue 

 green beneath, inner webs black ; tail blue green, near the end a 

 purplish band, the tip blue-black ; legs reddish brown. 



Inhabits Madagascar. 



