Roller. INSESSORES. CORACIAS.. 117 



GARRULOUS ROLLER. 



CoRACiAS GAitRULA, Linn. 



PLATE XXXIV. 



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



Syst. 1. p. 378— Lath. Iml. Ornith. 1. p. 1G8. 1. 

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

 Cornix coerulea Gesneri, i?rtM Syn. p. 42. — Will. p. 85. 



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



Garrulus argentoratensis, Rnii Svn. 41 — -Will. 89. 



Le llollier, Biiff- 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. \Oij.—Frisch, Vog. t. 57. 



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



— Lewis's Br. Birds, 2. t. 42 Lath. Syn. 1. p. 400. 1 Id. Suppl. p. 85. 



— Mont. Ornith. Diet Wale. Syn. 1. t. 41 — .Beioick's Br. Birds, 1. 1. 85. 



As a few accidental stragglers of this species have at differ- ll^are visi- 

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

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

 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. li;28. 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 "VVjt. 

 Jardine ; killed at Orkney in 1827, and scut to Iiim as a curious kind of 



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