86 ROLLER. 



a white streak ; chin white ; bounded on each side with black ; fore 

 part of the neck and breast dirty white, or pale ash-colour ; tail 

 cuneiform, the edges of the feathers greenish ; legs longer than 

 usual in the Roller, pale grey. 



Inhabits Cayenne ; approaches greatly to the Crow Genus. 



23— PIPING ROLLER. 



Coracias Tibicen, Ind. Om. Sup. xxvii. Shaw's Zool.vYi. 405. 

 Cassican, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. li. 

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



LENGTH eighteen or nineteen inches. Bill bluish white, two 

 inches or more in length, strait, except at the end of the upper 

 mandible, which is bent; tip black, with a very slight notch near 

 the point; general colour of the plumage deep black, but the nape, 

 wing coverts, some of the greater quills at the base, rump, vent, and 

 base of all the tail feathers, for two-thirds of the length, are white ; 

 the remainder of the tail is black, as is the whole of the outer feather 

 on the outer web ; legs dusky slate-colour. In some specimens those 

 parts are cinereous grey which are white in others. 



Inhabits New South Wales, by the name of Tarra-war-nang. 

 It has a soft note, not unlike the sound of a well-toned flute; preys 

 often on small birds. 



24— PIED ROLLER 



Coracias varia, Ind. Orn. i. 173. Gm. Lin. i. 381. Nat. Misc. 781. 



Gracula varia, Shaw's Zool. vii. 464. 



Cassican de la nouvelle Guinee, Buf. vii. 137. t. 7. PL enl. 628. 



Barita, Cassican, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. p. Ii. 



Pied Roller, Gen. Syn. i. 415. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill two inches and a half, bluish, 

 with a dark tip ; head, neck, and upper part of the back, black ; the 



