4 o6 ROLLER. 



, o Coracias garrula, Lin. Syji. i. p. 159. N 8 1. — Seep. ann. i. p. 40. N° 44. 



H>~ GARRULOUS Le Rollier, £;</. ors. ii. p. 64. pi. J. f. 2.— PI. tnl. 486. 



ROLLER- .. d'Europe, Buf.oif.iii. p. 135. pi. 10. 



Blave racke, Birclt-heher, Frifch. t. 57. 



The Roller, Raii Syn. p. 41. N° 3. p. ifZ.—Will. am. p. 131. pi. 20.— 

 J?/. iW. apj>. p. 624.. pi. z. — Ed<w. pi. 109. 

 Br.Muf. Lev.Muf. 



Dsscsiptiok. CIZE of a Jay: length twelve inches and a half. Bill black, 

 ftraitj hooked at the point ; bafe befet with briftles, but do 

 not cover the noftrils : fpace about the eyes fomewhat bare : the 

 head, neck, breaft, and belly, are of a light blueifh green : back 

 and fcapulars reddilh brown : coverts on the ridge of the wing 

 rich blue, beneath them pale green ; upper part and tips of the 

 quills dufky ; the lower parts of a fine deep blue : rump of this laft 

 colour : tail forked, of a light blue ; the outer feather tipped with 

 black above, and beneath with deep blue, as is the cafe with fuch 

 ,part of the quill feathers as is black above ; the other tail fea- 

 thers are dull green : legs fhort, and of a dirty yellow. 

 Place. Mr. Pennant, from whom the above defcription is taken, ob- 



ferves that thefe birds are frequent in feveral parts of Europe, in 

 mod parts of which it is a bird of pafiage. Mention is made of 

 them in Sweden * and Denmark f on the one hand, and as far as 

 Africa J on the other ; not that they are found in all the parts 

 between, nor in the fame plenty. Willughby tells us, that in Ger- 

 many, Sicily, and Malta, they are fo common as to be fold in the 

 inarketSj and in poulterers fhops. It has been called by fome 



* Faun. Suec. N° 94. f Br. Zool. app. p. 624. 



% S&aiv'jTrav. p. 25 1 »— » ddanf. Foy , 8vo t p. 24. 107. 



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