Rare visi- 
tant. 
Foreign 
locality. 
Nest, &c. 
Food. 
General 
descrip- 
tion. 
56  OMNIVORI® CORACDASs AC aneurous Bonen 
Garrulous Roller.—Coracias Garrula, Linn. 
PLATE 34. 
Coriacias garrula, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 159. 1.—Fauna Suec. No. 94.—Gmel. 
Syst. 1. p. 378.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. 1. p. 168. 1. : 
Galgulus, Briss. 2. p. 64. 1. t. 5. fi 2. 
Cornix coerulea Gesneri, Raii, Syn. p. 42.— Will. p. 85. 
Pica marina, Raii, Syn. p. 41.—Will. 89. 
Garrulous orgentoratorius, Raii, Syn. 41.—Wiil. 89. 
Le Rollier, Buff: Ois. v. 3. p. 135. t. 70.—Id. Pl. Enl. 486. 
Rollier vulgaire, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 127. 
Blaue-Racke, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 106.—Fvisch, Vog. t. 57. 
Roller, Br. Zool. App. t. 2.— Will. (Ang.) 131. t. 20.—Arct. Zool. 2. p. 235. 
—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 2. t. 42.—Lath. Syn. 1. p. 406. 1.—Jd. Suppl. p. 85. 
—WMont. Ornith. Dict.— Wale. Syn. 1. t. 41.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. t. 85. 
As a few accidental stragglers of this species have at differ- 
ent times been taken in Great Britain, I have been induced 
to admit it into the list of the British Fauna. The figure ac- 
companying 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 another 
(a female bird) that was found dead in a plantation at Ho- 
wick 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 Swe- 
den and Denmark.—It builds in the holes of decayed trees, 
and lays from four to seven eggs of a clear bluish-white.— 
Grasshoppers, snails, millipedes, and other insects, are its 
principal food. It is a bird of restless and fierce disposition, 
and very clamorous. 
Puate 34. Natural size. 
Bill yellowish-brown at the base, the tip black. At the 
base of the bill are a few black bristles. Invides yellow- 
ish-brown. Behind each eye is a small bare tubercle. 
Head, neck, breast, and belly verditer-blue, in some 
parts inclining to verdigris green. Back and scapulars 
reddish wood-brown. Smaller wing coverts rich auri- 
cula-purple, those next to them pale ultra-marine-blue. 
