SWALLOW-TAILED I?s'DTAX ROLLER. 
upper side of the tail, are of an ultramarine 
blue, with tranverse lines of a darker blue. 
The tail, which to me seemed perfect, had 
only ten feathers ; the two outermost longer 
than the others by five inches : the middle 
feathers of a darkish green ; the side feathers 
of a light sea-green, except the long feathers, 
the tips of which were black so far as they 
exceeded the length of the other feathers. 
The wing, on the upper side, has the lesser 
covert-feathers of a fine blue ; the coverts 
next above the quills of a blueish sea-green : 
the greater quills for the better half toward 
their bottoms, are of a fine blue, which gra- 
dually changes into a dusky colour toward 
their tips ; the inner coverts of the wings are 
sea-green. The legs are short in proportion, 
and the toes divided to their bottoms, all co- 
y-red with scales of a reddish flesh-colour. 
*' Mr. Page, Gentleman to Lord Mel- 
cornbe, obliged me with a sight of this curious 
bird ; and Informed me, that it was a native of 
the Island of Ceylon, in the East Indies. It 
dilFers very little from the Roller found in 
Europe; except in the excessive length of the 
outer 
