80 ROLLER. 



12 —BLUE-STRIPED ROLLER— Pl. xli. 



Coracias striata, Ind. Orn.'x. 171. Gm. Lin.'i. 381. Daud. ii. 264. Shaw's Zool. 



vii. 396. 

 Blue-striped Roller, Gen. Si/n. i. 414. pl. xvi. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill three quarters of an inch long, 

 bent at the tip, and black ; irides red ; general colour of the plumage 

 deep blue-black, dashed with streaks of greenish blue ; the tail and 

 legs black. 



The female is cinereous grey ; crown of the head darkest ; wing 

 coverts and quills black, edged with cinereous, but not streaked with 

 blue ; tail plain grey ; legs black. 



This we believe to be an exceedingly scarce species. The figures 

 were supplied to us by Sir Joseph Banks's drawings, taken from 

 specimens met with at New Caledonia, in the South Seas, by Dr. J. 

 R. Forster. We have never seen more than a single, mutilated 

 specimen of the male. 



13— BLACK ROLLER. 



Coracias nigra, Ind. Orn. i. 172. Daud. ii. 266. Shaiv's Zool. vii. 396. 

 Black Roller, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 85. 



LENGTH sixteen inches. Bill one inch and a quarter, strong, 

 curved at the point; nostrils at the fore part of a depression, not far 

 from the base, and covered with a membrane; colour of the bill 

 brownish horn ; general colour of the plumage glossy black ; the 

 outer quill half the length of the adjoining ; tail cuneiform, the two 

 middle feathers six inches long, the outer four and three quarters, the 

 feathers rounded at the ends; legs deep blackish brown, the feathers 

 hang over the joint, and are short and scaly; the middle toe very 

 long, and the claw larger than the others. 



