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BLUE-BODIED ROLLER. 
slightly shorter than the rest, and the two outer 
ones extended beyond the others, in narrow fila- 
ments, more than two inches: in the superior 
length of the wings, and the emargination of its 
quills at their tips, we trace an evident approxima- 
tion to the next genus, Emystomus : the under 
wing-covers, and the breast plumes close to them, 
are of the same turquois-green as the tail : bill and 
legs blackish. 
Total length, 13 inches ; bill, gape, 1 1 ; front, 
wings, 7 ; tail beyond, 3| ; depth of the fork, 2f ; 
tarsus, iV 
WHITE-NAPED ROLLER. 
Coracias nuchalis , Swains. 
Collar round the nape, front, and eyebrows, white ; back, 
scapulars, and tertials, obscure olive ; wing-covers vina- 
ceous, margined with purple ; under plumage vinaceous, 
striped with white. 
Of this rare and undescribed Roller, not more than 
three specimens have as yet fallen under our in- 
spection. Like the Indian Roller and its supposed 
varieties, the under plumage is striped with white 
upon a vinaceous or rufous-brown ground ; but it 
