88 ROLLER. 



Inhabits Norfolk Island ; very clamorous, especially in the night; 

 and called by our sailors a Magpie, perhaps on account of the colour, 

 added to the similarity of voice. It is a very foolish bird, running 

 after every person, and suffering itself to be knocked down with a 

 stick ; most frequent in June. M. Temminck unites the three last 

 described and our Blue-green Paradise Bird into one Genus, by the 

 name of Cassican. 



26— FAIRY ROLLER. 



Coracias Puella, Ind.Orn.'u 171. Daud.'u. 264. Shaw's Zool. vii. 998. 



Irena Puella, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 153. Horsf. Zool. Res. No. 1. pi. of male and female. 



Id. Plate of Bills. K. a. b. 

 Fairy Roller, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 87. 



SIZE of a Jackdaw. Bill stout, black, rather broad at the base, 

 and a little curved at the point, at the base a few hairs ; head, sides, 

 front of the neck, and all beneath black, belly dusky ; nape, neck 

 behind to the beginning of the back, and lesser wing coverts fine 

 splendid blue; middle of the back, and the rest of the wing black, 

 with three or four spots of blue at the base of the quills ; lower part 

 of the back, rump, and vent fine blue ; tail dusky blue; legs lead- 

 colour; the wings reach just beyond the base of the tail. 



Inhabits India, and there called the Blue Fairy Bird. In various 

 drawings from that part, I observe that the blue differs considerably 

 in shade, being in some much paler, and the tail blue-black, the 

 blue upper coverts reaching to at least half the length of it. At 

 Chittygong it is known by the name of Nealumpurry, and in some 

 other places is called Ootrool. In one of the drawings of Lord 

 Mountnorris's Collection, it is said to have been met with at Malacca ; 

 it also is found in Java, and there called Bressi, but is very rare, 

 and does not exceed nine inches and a half in length ; found also in 

 Sumatra, under the name of Biang-kapoor ; is seen likewise in the 

 adjacent Islands. 



