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Family CORACIIDJE. 



Coracias benghalensis. INDIAN ROLLER. 



Corvus benghalensis Li /mams, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 106 : 

 Bengal. 



Coracias indica Linn.; Shroye, Cat. Birds B. M. xvii. 1892, 

 p. 10; Sfrnnders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 282. 



A Roller, shot near Louth, Lincolnshire, in Oct. 1883, was 

 identified with this species. 



The Indian Roller inhabits India and Ceylon eastwards to 

 Calcutta, westward through Baluchistan to Muscat and 

 perhaps ranges occasionally as far as the Bosphorus. 



Coracias abyssinicus. ABYSSIXIAN ROLLER. 



Coracias abyssinica Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl. 1783, p. 38 : 

 Abyssinia. 



Coracias abyssinicus Bodd. ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xvii. 1892, 

 p. 19 ; Sounders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 282. 



An example was killed near Glasgow about 1857 and 

 another forty miles away, according to the late Dr. Bree. 



The Abyssinian Roller inhabits northern tropical Africa 

 from Senegambia and northern Nigeria to Abyssinia. 



Order STRIGIFORMES. 



Family STRIGID^. 



Nyctala acadica. SAW-WHET OWL. 



Strix acadica Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. pt. 1, 1788, p. 29C : 

 Nova Scotia. 



Nyctala acadica (Gmel.) ; STiarpe, Cat. Birth B. M. ii. 1875, 

 p. 287 ; B. O. 17. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 89 ; Sounders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 300. 



An example from near Beverley, Yorkshire, reported by 

 Sir William Milner in 1860, cannot be accepted as a 

 satisfactory record. 



