PLATE XXXIII. 



Roller Wil. Orn. 131. pi. 20. 



Rati. Syn. p. 41. N° 3. p. 42: 



Pen. Br. Zook appen. p. 624-.pl. 2< 



Edw. PI. 109. 

 Le Rollier. Brlf. Orn. ii. p. 64. pi. $.f. 2. PL enl. 486, 

 Le Rollier d'Europe. Buff. Olf. 3. p. 135. pi 10. 

 The Shagarag. Shaw's Travels. 252. 

 Spranfk Kraka, Blakraka, Allekraka. Faun. Suec.fp. 94. 

 Ellekrage. Brun. 35. 

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



On the authority of Mr. Pennant we have ventured to introduce 

 this fpecies. " Of thefe birds/' fays Mr. Pennant, in the ap- 

 pendix to the Britifti Zoology, " we have heard of only two being; 

 feen at large in our Ifland ; one was (hot near Helfton-bridge-y Cornwall 

 and an account of it tranfmitted to us by the Reverend Doctor 

 William Bor/afe." 



Thefe birds are frequent in moft parts of Europe ; in Germany, 

 Sicily and Malta they are fo common as to be fold in the markets *. 

 Edwards mentions one (hot on Gibraltar Rock - 9 it is alfo. met with, 

 from the fouthern parts of RuJJia to the neighbourhood of the 

 IrtiJJj-f. 



It makes its nefl in woods, mod frequently in Birch trees % ; never 

 lays more than five eggs, which are of a clear green, fprinkled 

 with innumerable dark fpecks §. It does not come to its colour till 



* Willughby. f ArEl. ZwL 



% Frifch. ' v . - ' § -Lafbam. 



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