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Genus XIII. ROLLER. 



N° 17. Black R. 



18. African R. 



19. Black-headed R. 



N' 20. Grey-tailed R. 

 21. Fairy R. 



Garrulous Roller, Gra. Syn. i. p. 406. N° i. — Aril. Zooh ii. p. 253. G. 

 Coraciasgarrula, Brun. N" 35. — Mulhr, N" 94. 



'T'HIS is met with in Rujfia -, but only from the fouthern parts 

 to the neighbourhood of the Irtijh* : builds in the holes of 

 old oaks, about Woronefch, Screams without ceafing. It is ob- 

 ferved never to be feen-on the ground f. The birch-tree, how- 

 ever, feems to be its favourite habitation, and in which it moft 

 frequently builds the neft, laying as far as five eggs, of a clear 

 green, fprinkled with innumerable dark fpecks. 



-GARRULOUS 

 ROLLER. 



Br, Muf. 



T ENGTH fixteen inches. Bill broad and ftout, and a little 

 curved at the tip : noftrils fmall, placed on the fore part of a 

 long depreflion at the bafe, covered by a membrane : at the bafe 

 of the bill a few flight briflles : general colour of the plumage 

 black : tail feven inches in length: legs black. 



I met with the above preferved in fpirits in the BritiJIo Mujeiim, 

 Natiye place uncertain. 



♦ Ara> ZooL 



t DecRuf, i. p. loS. 



17- 

 BLACK R. 



DfisCRipTioit. 



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