GARRULOUS ROLLER. 



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fpots : two middle feathers of the tail dufky ; the reft ferrusinous : 

 has the fame loofe filky texture of feathers as the Jay. Size of a 

 Stare. 



Found as high as the forefts of Lapland. Is called by the Sioedes, Place, 



■Lappjkata and Olyckfugl -, by the Norwegians, Gertrudsfogel ; alfo 

 Ulyksfuegl, from its being fuppofed to forebode ill-luck. Linnatis, 

 for the fame reafon, ftyles it Lanius Infauftus j and in his Fauna, 

 Corvus Infaujliis *. It is common in the woods of the north olRuffia 

 and Sibiria. Is a moft audacious bird. Linnaeus relates, that in 

 dining amidft the Lapland forefts, it would often fnatch away the 

 meat before him. Breeds in crevices of rocks-. Feeds on worms 

 and infects. Sings finely, and is often prelerved in cages for its fong» 



ROLLER. Gen. Birds XIII. 



G. Garrulous, Br. Zool. iL App. p. 530 quarto, 624 o£lavo. — Latham, 1, /fi6,'^Dss 

 Buffbn, iii. 133. — Aldr. i. 395. 

 Coracias Garrula, Spanflt-kraka, Bla-kraka„ Faun. Suec, W 94. 



TJ With a naked fpot beyoad each ear : head, neck,^ back, breaft, 

 belly, and greater coverts of the wings, of a light bluifir 

 green : back, ferruginous : coverts of the tail, leffer coverts of the 

 wings, and lower parts, of the fecondaries, of a rich blue ; primaries 

 black above, blue beneath ; middle feathers of the tail dirty green j 

 the reft of a light blue ; the exterior feathers on each fide much longer 

 than the reft, and tipt with black : legs yellowifti. Size of a Jay. 



This elegant bird is found not fpread, but as if it were ia a ftream, PiAar^^ 



from the fouthern parts of Norway to Barbary and Senegal : from the 

 fouth oi Ruffia to the neighborhood of the Irtijb, only, in that em- 

 pire j and foutherly, to Syria -j-. In Sweden, it arrives with the Cuckoo ^ 



* S^/f. 138. FaujuSuu. N°93. + Rufd't Jlefpo, 69* 



jretires. 



