^00 ROLLER. Class IL 





GENUS V. ROLLER. 



Bill strait, bending a little towards the end, 



edges cultrated, bare of feathers at the 



base. 



Nostrils narrow, naked. ;■'■-•>■: 



Tongue cartilaginous, cloven. -^^ " 



i. Garru- Coracias garrula. C. cserulea, Spransk Kraka, Blakraka, Al- 



LOUS. dorso rubro, remigibus nigris. lekraka.. Faun. Suec. sp. Q4. 



Lath. Ind. orn. \QQ.id. Syn. i. Edw. \0Q. 



406. id. Sup. i. 85. The Shagarag. Shaw's Tra~ 



Roller. WU. orn. 131. vels,2b2. 



Garrulus argentoratensis. Rail EUekrage. Brunnich, 35. 



Syn.av. 41. Birk-Heker; Blaue-Racke. 



Galgulus, le RoUier. Brisson Frisch, i. 57. 



av. ii. 64. Tab. 5. Hist, d'ois. Br. Zool. 4to. App. 530. 



iii. 135. Pl.Enl.486. Arct. Zool. i. 279. 



Coracias Garrula. Gtn, Lin. 378. " ' 



UF these birds we have heard of only two 

 being seen at large in our island ; one of which 

 was shot near Helston-bridge, Cornxvall, and an 

 account of it transmitted to us by the Reverend 

 Doctor JViUiam Boi^lasc* They are frequent 



* In the month of May 1811, Sir Thomas GoocKs keeper 

 shot a female Roller near Benacre, in Suffolk, on the same spot 

 where he had killed the male four years since; the ground they 

 frequented was a coarse sort of heath and fen interniLxed. Ed. 



