ROLLER. 83 



17— VARIED ROLLER. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill stout, one inch and a quarter 

 long, greenish yellow ; irides red-brown ; nostrils visible ; plumage 

 parrot green beneath, sides of the neck paler, inclined to brown, 

 and each feather marked with a slender white streak down the shaft, 

 swelling in the middle ; vent plain ; second wing coverts and quills 

 marked with a small white spot at the tips, and the latter with three 

 or four spots of white down the shafts ; greater quills brown, edged 

 with green ; tail four inches and a half long, even at the end, all 

 but the two middle feathers tipped with a white spot ; legs stout, 

 lead-colour; claws hooked and large. Said to be a male bird. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — General Davies. 

 Another specimen in the collection of Mr. Harrison ; it is also in 

 the Linnaean Museum. 



18— STRIATED ROLLER. 



Coracias sagittata, Ind. Om. Sup. xxvi. Shaw's Zooh viii. 400. 

 Striated Roller, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 122. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill, from the gape, one inch and a 

 quarter, stout, red brown ; head, neck, back, rump, and lesser wing 

 coverts green, the shafts of the feathers dark, appearing as lines; 

 on the chin and throat a mixture of ash-colour ; breast and under 

 parts dusky white, marked with black streaks, broader and bifid 

 beneath, appearing like the barbs of arrows; under wing coverts 

 and sides tinged with yellow green ; greater wing coverts and quills 

 dark within, and ash-coloured on the outer web, each marked at the 

 tip with white ; tail of twelve feathers, even, four inches and a half 



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