. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. «4 GARRULOUS ROLLER. i: fi<. •wherever thefe quills are black on the outfide, they are blue beneath. Aldrovandus, who feems to have been well acquainted with thefe birds, and who lived in a country which they inhabit, aflerts that the female differs much from the male, its bill being thicker, and its head, neck, breaft, and belly of a chefnut colour, bordering on afh- gray, while the correfponding parts in the male are of the colour of the beryl, with different ref
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. «4 GARRULOUS ROLLER. i: fi<. •wherever thefe quills are black on the outfide, they are blue beneath. Aldrovandus, who feems to have been well acquainted with thefe birds, and who lived in a country which they inhabit, aflerts that the female differs much from the male, its bill being thicker, and its head, neck, breaft, and belly of a chefnut colour, bordering on afh- gray, while the correfponding parts in the male are of the colour of the beryl, with different reflections of a duller green. I fufpedt that the two long outfide quills of the tail, and the warts behind the eyes, which appear only in fome individuals, are the attributes of the male, as the fpur in the gallinaceous tribe, the long tail in the peacocks, &c. [A] • Willughby, Schwenckfcld, Briflbn. [A] Specific charafter of the Garrulous-Roller, Coracias-Gar- rula, Linn. :—" Itis fky-blue, its back red, its tail-quills black.'* Its eggs are of a pale green, with numerous dull fpots, and of the bulk of a pigeon's. It is feldom or never fcen in Great Britain. M. VARIETIES of the ROLLER* Dr. Shaw mentions, m his Travels, a bird of Barbary, called by the Arabs ^jaga-Rag^ which is of the bulk and fhape of the jay, but with a fmaller bill and fhorter feet. The. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strachan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and J. Murray . ..
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