GAE.RULOUS ROLLER, 
to Mr. Catesby, in London, who obliged me 
with the tise of it. The Latin names given i 
to it by natural historians, are Garrulus Ar-» I 
gentoratensis, and Cornix Ccsrulea." 
BuiFon tells us, the Roller is so rare at Stras- 
burgh, that scarcely three or four stragglers 
are seen in the course of twenty years ; one of 
\yhich having been sent to Gesner, he deno- 
minated it the Strasburgli Jay ! — -that it is a bird 
of passage, and performs it's migrations regu- 
larly once a year, in the months of May and 
September, yet is not so common as the Mag^ 
pye or Jay— -that it is found in Sv^^eden, and ir 
Africa; but miust not be supposed settled 'ir 
the intermediate regions, and is unknown it 
many parts of Germany, France, Switzerland 
— that it may be traced through Saxony 
Franconia, Scabia, Bavaria, Tirol, Italy, au; 
Sicily ; and, lastly, in the Island of Malta 
which is a sort of general rendezvous for a 
the birds which cross the Mediterranean. 
The Roller," savs BufFon, " is more wi 
than tlie Jay or Magpye : it settles in tl 
thickest and the most solitary woods ; nor, 
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