84 ROLLER. 



long, all but the two middle marked at the tips with a large oval 

 white spot on the inner, and just tipped with the same on the outer 

 web, deepest on the outer feathers ; the legs stout, short, brown ; 

 claws hooked. 



Inhabits New South Wales. In a drawing of this bird the tongue 

 appears to be bristly at the end, not unlike that of the Honey-eater. 



19— STREAKED ROLLER. 



LENGTH eleven inches and a half. Bill stout, brown, with a 

 slight notch on the upper mandible, at the tip; plumage above olive 

 brown, inclining to green on the rump; all the feathers streaked down 

 the middle with dusky ; from the bill a mottled paler streak, passing 

 over the eye, and surrounding the hindhead as a wreath, but not 

 eminently conspicuous ; under parts, from the chin, white, with 

 dusky streaks, most numerous on the breast; vent white; wings 

 brown, the feathers edged with tawny; under wing coverts mixed 

 pale tawny ; tail four inches and a half long, even, brown, all but 

 the two middle feathers marked with a large oval white spot on the 

 inner web at the end, and just tipped with the same on the outer ; 

 legs stout. 



Another, supposed to be a female, wanted the tawny edges of the 

 coverts, and the wreath round the head less conspicuous. 



Inhabits New-Holland ; has some things in common with the 

 Striated Roller, and might pass for a young bird, or differing in sex, 

 but the feathers of the tail in this have the ends pointed, and more 

 narrow than in the Striated, which has the tail feathers in general 

 broader, yet the white ends in both are precisely the same, and 

 therefore gives a suspicion of their being allied to each other. 



From the collection of Lord Stanley. 



