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PICJE. 
GENUS 14. 
CORACIAS— ROLLER. 
The characters of this genus, as given 
by Linnseus, are as follow. 
Bill; sharp edged, bent in at the point, 
the base naked of feathers. 
Tongue; cartilaginous, bifid. 
Legs\ short. 
Feet; formed for walking. 
Some or other of the different species 
belonging to this genus, are to be met 
with in every quarter of the globe. 
Latham enumerates in the body of his 
synopsis only sixteen species, though in 
his index which was published some years 
afterwards, he has extended them to 
twenty-two, of which the following is 
the only one known to have been taken in 
the British Isles, and even of this the 
