30(> ROLLER. Class XI. 



GENUS V. ROLLER. 



Bill strait, bending a little towards the end, 

 edges cultrated, bare of feathers at the! 1 

 base. 



Nostrils narrow, naked. 



Tongue cartilaginous, cloven. 



1. Garru- Coracias garrula. C. caerulea, Spransk Kraka, Blakraka, AU 



Lous. dorso rubro, remigibus nigris. lekraka. Faun. Suec. sp. 94. 



Lath. Lid. om. l68.id. Syn. i. Edw. 109. 



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



Roller. JVil.orn.13l. vels,2b2. 



Garrulus argentoratensis. Rail Ellekrage. Brunnich, 35. 



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



Galgulus, le Rollier. 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. Gm»Lin.3"J8. 



v7F these birds we have heard of only two 

 being seen at large in our island ; one of which 

 was shot near Helston-bridge, Cornwall, and an 

 account of it transmitted to us by the Reverend 

 Doctor William Borlase* They are frequent 



* In the month of May 1811, Sir Thomas Goock's 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 he»th and fen intermixed. Ed. 



