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GARRULOUS ROLLER. 



CORACIAS GARRULA, Linn. 



PLATE XXXIV. 



Coracias garrula, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 159. 1 Fauna Suec. No. 94 Gmel. 



Syst. 1. p. 378 Lath. Ind. Ornith. 1. p. 168. 1. 



Galgulus, Briss. 2. p. 64. 1. t. 5. f. 2. 



Cornix coerulea Gesneri, Ran Syn. p. 42. Will p. 85. 



Pica marina, Rail Syn. p. 41 Will. 89. 



Garrulus argentoratensis, Raii Syn. 41. Will. 89. 



Le Rollier, Buff. Ois. v. 3. p. 135. t. 70. Id. PI. Enl. 486. 



Rollier vulgaire, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 127. 



Blaue-Racke, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 106. Frisch, Vog. t. 57. 



.Roller, Br. Zool. App. t. 2 Will. (Ang.) 131. t. 20 Arct. ZooL 2. p. 235. 



Levin's Br. Birds, 2. t. 42 Lath. Syn. l.p. 406. 1 Id. Suppl. p. 85. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet Wale. Syn. 1. t. 41 Bewicks Br. Birds, 1. 1. 85. 



As a few accidental stragglers of this species have at differ- I^ 1 " 6 vis i- 

 ent times been taken in Great Britain, I have been induced 

 to admit it into the list of the British Fauna. The figure 

 accompanying this work was drawn from a specimen now in 

 the Edinburgh Museum, and which was killed at Dunkeld a 

 few years ago. I had also an opportunity of examining an- 

 other (a female bird) that was found dead in a plantation at 

 Howick House in Northumberland, the seat of Earl* GREY *. 

 In Germany it is very common, inhabiting the oak forests of 

 that country ; and is also numerous in many parts of Sweden 

 and Denmark. It builds in the holes of decayed trees, and Nest, &c. 

 lays from four to seven eggs of a clear bluish- white. Grass- Food, 

 hoppers, snails, millepedes, and other insects, are its princi- 

 pal food. It is a bird of restless and fierce disposition, and 

 very clamorous. 



* June 19. 1828. A specimen of the Roller was sent to me by Mr 

 GOOD, that was taken on board a vessel bound from America to the Port 

 of Berwick, but in what latitude I did not learn. It appeared to be a 

 male from the brilliancy of its plumage, but was not in a state to admit of 

 the fact being ascertained by dissection. 



A specimen of the present species is now in the possession of Sir WM. 

 JARDINE ; killed at Orkney in 1027, and sent to him as a curious kind of 

 Duck. 



