IRENA PUELLA, 
iflale avto dfemal*. 
Ord. IF* Les Passereatdc, Cumer. V Faniille, Les Dentirostres. 
Ord. IF e Omxivores, Temminck. 
Ord. II. PiCje, Linn. Syst 
Ord. II. Ambulatores, Hliger. 
IRENA, Nob. 
Char. Gen. Rostrum mediocre, cultratum; maxilla apice adunca emarginata. 
Oilmen arcuatum, elevatum, inter nares carinatum, utrinque a basi ultra 
medium usque sulco obsoleto exaratum, lateribus subconvexis. Nares basales 
subrotundse, vibrissis rigidis plumisque velutinis obteetae. Al<e cauda breviores. 
Remiges: 2 — 6 externe emarginata?, 3 — 6 longiores subsequales ; secunda sequente 
abrupte brevior, prima subspuria. Cauda mediocris, truncata. Tarsi digitique 
breves. Acropodia scutulata, Ungues parvi, fortius eurvati, debiles. 
Affinitas, Oriolo, Turdo, Fastori genere affmis, differt tamen convexitate laterali 
rostri, tegmine veiutino narium, brevitate tarsorum et debilitate unguium. 
Irena atra, corpore colloque supra cervice tectricibusque alarum primis, caucUeque 
superioribus et inferioribus cyaneis, nitore saturate azureo. 
Rressi, of the Javanese. 
Biang-kapoor, of the Malays of Sumatra. 
Coracias puella, hath. Ind. Om. 171. 
Fairy Roller, hath. Syn. Supp. p. 87. 21. 
Irena puella, Mors/. Syst Arrangement of Birds from Java, hinn. Trans. Vol. XIII. 
p. 153. 
THIS bird is not confined to Java, but is also found in Sumatra and the adjacent 
Islands. In enumerating it among the birds of Sumatra, Sir Stamford Raffles 
remarks — ** Nothing can surpass the richness of the colours which distinguish the 
<( male of this species ; they far exceed what any painting can convey.* The crown 
of the head, the neck above, the back, lesser wing coverts, and the coverts of the 
tail, both above and beneath, are of a most resplendent smalt blue, while every other 
part is of the finest velvet black. 
