SWALLOW - TAILED INDIAN 
ROLLER. 
If this bird be, in fa6t, " the Coracias Sene- 
galensis of Gmelin, and the Senegal Roller of 
Latham as is said, in a note to the translation 
of BufFon's Natural History of Birds, added 
to his account of the Senegal Roller, which he 
considers as a variety of the Abyssinian Roller ; 
it must be acknowledged, that the name of 
Indian Roller, which we have adopted with the 
figure, from Edwards, is very improper. We 
apprehend, however, that there is of this but 
little certainty ; and, therefore, as Edwards 
called it the Swallow-Tailed Indian Roller, and 
Linnaeus has himself recognized it as his Co- 
racias Caudata, we have retained the original 
appellation. In another note, to BufFon's An-» 
gola Roller, that bird is said to be the Cora- 
cias Caudata of Linnseus, and the Long-Tailed 
Roller of Latham. 
That Edwards might be misinformed, and 
even Linnaeus mistaken, is very possible ; and 
both must have happened, in this case, if the 
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