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OR Pedi. -GE NUS. ROLLER. 
Bitu: ftraight, and flightly hooked at the end. 
NostriLs: narrow, and naked. 
Tors: three before, and one behind. 
SPECIES. 4... cROLLER. 
Fie Als 
Coracias garrula. Lin. Syf. I. p. 159. 
Le Rollier. Brif. Orn. II. p. 64. 
This bird is about the fize of the jay. The bill is of a dark horn colour, 
and hooked at the point: the fkin around the eyes is fomewhat bare: the head, 
neck, breaft, and belly, are of a light bluifh green colour: the back and 
fhoulders reddith brown: wing coverts of a rich blue, on the ridge; beneath, 
of a pale green: upper parts and tips of the quills dull black: the lower parts 
and rump of a fine blue colour: the tail confifts of twelve feathers, the two 
middle ones are blue, the reft pale green: the legs are fhort, and of a pale 
brown colour. 
This bird is very rare in thefe kingdoms ; it is however fufficiently common 
in various parts of the continent, and breeds in the northern parts of Germany 
and Ruffia, in the greateft plenty, building in the holes of old trees. The eggs 
are faid to be five in number, of a clear green colour, fpeckled with dark 
fpots, 
— ET 
