Indian roller, Coracias benghalensis. East Indian blue jay, Coracias indica. From a specimen brought from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) by John Gideon Loten now in the British Museum. Handcolored copperplate engraving after an illustration by George Edwards from The Naturalist’s Pocket Magazine, Harrison, Fleet Street, London, 1800.

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