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productions. There are even fewer species of this family than of 
the Meropide ; and those few are all warm-country birds. They are 
abundant in Africa; one or two species frequent India; others 
the islands of the Eastern archipelago. Up to this time no true 
Roller has been found in Australia, where it is represented by the 
members of the genus Hurystomus. 
Genus Coractas. 
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Roxzer. 
Although the Roller is a regular summer visitant to the centre 
of Germany and other parts of the Continent, its occurrences in 
England have been few and far between ; here, therefore, it can only 
be regarded as an accidental visitor. It has nevertheless been occa- 
sionally killed in the three kingdoms. 
Family UPUPID. 
Varied indeed are the opinions entertained by ornithologists re- 
specting the situation this family of birds should occupy in our 
systems. For my own part, I have always considered its proper place 
to be near to, if not associated with, the Hornbills (Bucerotide) ; 
hence this is perhaps not the situation in which it would appear in 
an arrangement of the birds of the world; but it is the best I can 
assign to it in a limited fauna like that of the British Islands. 
Genus Upupa. 
About five species of this very singular form are known; they 
inhabit Europe, Asia, Africa, and Madagascar. 
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Hoopor. 
An accidental visitor to England, where it generally arrives in 
May ; and its doom is sealed as soon as it makes its appearance: so 
attractive a creature immediately arresting attention, it soon falls 
a victim to the gunner; and its mounted skin is found in the houses 
ef the men of Kent and other southern counties. 
Family LANIIDA. 
The Shrikes, comprising many species, are very generally distri- 
buted over the surface of the globe, particularly in the Old World. 
Some of the typical members inhabit Britain and North America, 
and are also found in Asia and Africa, but not in the islands of the 
Eastern archipelago, nor in Australia. They are all, to a certain 
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