. A history of British birds . e nestling has a still more dingy appearance ; the head,neck, lower parts of the back, and the whole body beneath,are streaked with light greenish-grey; upper part of theback and scapulars greyish-brown, tinged with dull green ;wings and tail as before described: the irides are grey, andthe feet pale brownish-yellow. The vignette represents the sternum of this species.* * Dr. Bree in 1859 (B. Europe, i. p. 157) mentioned a male of the AliyssinianRoller, then in the possession of Mr. Small of Edinburgh, killed near Glasgowa year or two ago, adding that a female wa
. A history of British birds . e nestling has a still more dingy appearance ; the head,neck, lower parts of the back, and the whole body beneath,are streaked with light greenish-grey; upper part of theback and scapulars greyish-brown, tinged with dull green ;wings and tail as before described: the irides are grey, andthe feet pale brownish-yellow. The vignette represents the sternum of this species.* * Dr. Bree in 1859 (B. Europe, i. p. 157) mentioned a male of the AliyssinianRoller, then in the possession of Mr. Small of Edinburgh, killed near Glasgowa year or two ago, adding that a female was also obtained a short time after,but forty miles distant. The normal range of this species—Coracias lexico-cepTialus, P. L. S. Miiller; C. ahessmus, Bodd. and C senegalensis, Gmel.—hasbeen traced by Mr. Shai-pe (Ibis, 1871, p. 199), and it is a very unlikely bird tohave escaped from confinement, since Rollers are not often imported alive to thiscountry. There is no other record of the appearance of the species in PIC Am .BEE-EATER. 435 MRROPIDM.
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