404 MADAGASCAR ROLLER. 



reaching to the tip of the tail: described by Buffon, 

 and figured in the Planches Enluminees, Native 

 of the East Indies. 



MADAGASCAR ROLLER. 



Coracias Madagascariensis. C. latirostris purpureo-ferruginea, 

 remigibus primoribus cceruleis, Cauda cequali thalassina apice 

 purpureo-nigricante. 



Broad-billed purple-ferruginous Roller, with the greater quill- 

 feathers blue, the tail even, with purplish-black tip. 



Le Rollier de Madagascar. Buff, ois, PL Enl. 501. 



Madagascar Roller. Lath. syn. 



A BEAUTIFUL spccics, though, like the preceding, 

 of a less elegant shape than some others of the 

 genus: length about ten inches: colour above 

 purple ferruginous, brighter or more inclining to 

 blossom-colour beneath: quill-feathers blue-black 

 or extremely deep blue: rump, vent, and tail, 

 blue-green, tipped with purple blue and black: 

 bill dull yellow, short, and broad at the base: legs 

 reddish brown. This seems to have been first de- 

 scribed by BufFon, or at least by Montbeillard, 

 who perhaps was not very correct in his account, 

 since he describes the quill-feathers as black, while 

 in the Planches Enluminees they are represented 

 deep- blue, as, in all probabiliiyj they really are. 



