BRITISH BIRDS. 
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THE ROLLER. 
( Coracias Garrula, Lin .— ~Le Rollier d y Europe, Buff.) 
This rare bird is diflinguifhed by, a plumage 
of mod: exquifite beauty ; it vies with the Par- 
rot in an aiTemblage of the fined: fhades of blue and 
green, mixed with white, and heightened by the 
contrail of graver colours, from whence perhaps it 
has been called the German Parrot, although in e- 
very other refpe£t it differs from that bird, and ra- 
ther feems to claim affinity with the Crow kind, to 
which we have made it an appendage. In fize it 
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