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WIIITE-NAPED ROLLER. 
legs brown. It may be as well to add, that there 
is in tliis species none of that green, either on the 
wings or on the body, which is so conspicuous in 
the Coracias Indica, Linn, figured by Edwards, 
pi. 326, and in the PI. Enl. 285. 
Total length to the tip of the middle tail-feather, 
1 3 inches ; bill, from the base, 1 j ; ditto, from the 
gape, 1 T 9 5 ; wings, middle tail-feather, ; 
tarsus, y' 5 . 
CINNAMON-BACKED ROLLER. 
Eurystomus rubescens , Vieillot. 
Rufous-cinnamon, beneath glossed with purple ; quills, and 
greater wing-covers, mazarine blue ; under tail- covers, and 
lateral tail-feathers, blue-green *, bill orange. 
Coracias Afra, A uciorum . — Eurystomus rubescens, Vieill. 
Ency. Meth. 871. — Collaris purpurascens. System a Avium, 
No. 2. 
Where all the species of a genus are distinguished 
by splendid colours, variously combined, it is al- 
most impossible to assign the pre-eminence to any 
one. But for the inexpressible splendour of the 
blue on the Coracias cyanogaster, we should be 
tempted to say the bird now before us was the most 
