Coracias Bengalenfis, Lin. Syft. i. p. 159. N° $•
Le Rollier de Mindanao, BHf. orn. ii. p. 69. N° 2. pi. 6. f. 1»
Le Cuit,.or Rollier de Mindanao, Buf. oif. iii, p. 144.
Rollier de Mindanao, PL enl. 285.
Bengal Eye, Albin, i. t.. 17.
T ENGTH twelve inches and a half: fize of the laft.. The
bill, as. in. that, blackilh : the top of the head' is green,,
verging to-blue near the eyes : the hind" part of the neck fulvous,
with a violet tinge: the upper part of the back and fcagulars the
fame, but has a greenilh mixture, and in fome lights changing to-
olive : the lower part of the back and rump blue, with a mixture
of green.: throat rufous white: cheeks and fore part of the neck
violet, dafhed down the middle of each feather with blueifh white :r
bread rufous,inclining to violet: belly, fides, thighs, under tail,
and wing coverts,, blue green : upper tail and.leffer wing coverts
fine deep blue; the greater ones, fartheft from the body, blue
green; but thofe in the middle are blue and green mixed, and
thole neareft the body green : the five firft quills are deep blue;.
the middle of the outer webs, blue green: the tail feathers in this
bird are of equal lengths; the two middle ones dull green, tinged
with blue down the lhafts; the reft are blue for one third from,
the bafe, then blue green, with blue tips: the legs are grey, and
the claws blackilh.
This inhabits Bengal and the ifle of Mindanao-, where it is called;
Cuit. It does not effentially differ: from the laft * : the chief
• Nor fcarcely from the fecond and third, fufficient to feparate them into-
different Ipecies.
difference.
difference is the rufous violet-colour on the breaft, and the want
o f the long outer tail feathers. The comparing the two figures
in the Planches enluminées, iéems much to favour this opinion.
This laft may perhaps be a female, or a young bird ; for the Ion»
tail feathers do not appear till the fécond year.
Btiffon mentions a variety, which came from Goa, and had
not the fulvous band on the breaft, like the laft-mentioned ; in-
ftead of which, there was a collar o f a vinaceous colour -behind
the neck, a little below the head.
Coracias orientalis, Lin. Syft. i. p. 159. ^N° 4.
Le Rollier des Indes, Brif. orn. ii. p. 75. pi. 7. f. z.— Ê-uf. vif. iii. p. 147.—
PL enl. 619.
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g lZ E of a Jay: length ten inches and a half. The bill is yel- Description-.
lowilh, broader * at the bafe, and more hooked than in any of
the genus : the head -and hind part of the neck brown': back,
-rump, fcapulars, wing and tail coverts, green brown ■: throat fine
blue; down the lhaft of each feather a pale line : the reft of the
parts beneath blue green : quills mixed blue and-black; on the
middle a large pale blue fpot: wings -longer than in other
Rollers: tail even at the end-; the two middle feathers green at
the bafe, the reft of the way black; the other feathers are firft
®reen, then blue, with black t ip s : legs yellowilh-: claws black.
This is a native o f the Eafi-Indies. . T lace,
* des’cif. iii. 147.
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