BLACK-HEADED ROLLER. 397 



cinereous colour, with the tail plain grey, and the 

 wing-coverts and quills black with cinereous edges. 

 Native of New Caledonia. 



GREY-TAILED ROLLER. 



Coracias vagabunda. C. capite coUoque nigris, corpore supra 

 Jerrugineo-fusco sultus cinereoj alls medio albis,. cauda Ion- 

 gissima cuneiformi grisea apice nigra. -' 



Roller with the head and neck black, the body above ferrugin- 

 ous-brown, ash-coloured beneath, the wings white in the 

 middle, and the tail very long, cuneiform, grey, with a 

 black tip. 



Grey-Tailed Roller. Lath, si/n. 



Described hy Mr. Latham from a drawing: 

 size of a Jay: length seventeen >inches: bill black : 

 legs cinereous. Native of India. 



BLACK-HEADED ROLLER. 



Coracias melanocephala. C. cceruleo^purpurea, capite colloque 

 nigris, corpore suhtus albo, remigibus Jusci^t, cauda cuneiformi 

 apice alba. Lath. ind. orn. 



Blueish-purple Roller, white beneath, with black head and 

 neck, and cuneiform tail with white tip. 



Black-Headed Roller. Lath. syn. svppl. 



Described from a drawing: size of a Jay: bill 

 and legs red: hind-head greyish: two middle tail- 

 feathers blue, the rest purplish, and all tipped with 

 white. Supposed to be a native of China. 



