ROLLER. 
GARRULOUS ROLLER. 
Y RHOLYDD, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH. 
Coracias garrula, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 
Galgulus, Brisson. 
Garrulus argentoratensis, Ray. 
Coracias—The Greek name of some bird of the Jackdaw kind. 
Garrula—Garrulous, 
THE proverb says that ‘fine feathers do not make a fine 
bird,’ but what the naturalist says is more to our present 
purpose:—‘Look on this picture.’ 
The Roller, called also the German Parrot, is a native of 
the northern parts of Africa, from whence it migrates to 
Europe in the spring, returning in the autumn: it also occurs 
in various other parts of that continent. Numbers are taken 
at Malta, while tarrying there as their half-way house, being 
thought good eating. In Germany it is frequently found, 
and in Denmark occasionally, the south of Russia, Norway, 
Sweden, France, Spain, Italy, Sicily, and Greece; also in 
Asia Minor and Japan. 
In Yorkshire a pair of Rollers were seen in July, 1847, 
in a plantation called ‘Forty-pence,’ belonging to John Thomas 
Wharton, Esq., of Skelton Castle, near Redcar: one of them, 
a female, was obtained. Another was shot in Fixby Park, 
near Huddersfield, in 1824; one at Hatfield, near Doncaster; 
another, about the same time, near Halifax; and a sixth near 
Scarborough, in 1832. One, a female, near the Land’s End, 
in Cornwall, on the 8th. of October, 1844; and two or three 
others in the same county. A male was shot on the 29th. 
