. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. Order 2. PASSERINE. 193 Their anatomy offers some peculiarities which connect them with the Kingfishers and Wood- peckers ; the sternum (fig. 94) is doubly emarginated, they have but one pair of larjTigeal muscles, and the stomach is membranous; [they have also no coeca to the intestine. In every essential par- ticular they thus accord with the Kingfishers and Bee-eaters, with which they form a special natural group, all the members of which take th
. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. Order 2. PASSERINE. 193 Their anatomy offers some peculiarities which connect them with the Kingfishers and Wood- peckers ; the sternum (fig. 94) is doubly emarginated, they have but one pair of larjTigeal muscles, and the stomach is membranous; [they have also no coeca to the intestine. In every essential par- ticular they thus accord with the Kingfishers and Bee-eaters, with which they form a special natural group, all the members of which take their food commonly on the wing, lay numerous polished white eggs, of au almost spherical shape, in holes of some description, collecting no nest, the young retaining their first plumage, which is little less bright than that of the adult, until the second autumn : the whole of them subsist exclusively on animal diet]. The Rollers, properly so called,— Have a straight beak, higher than broad, [and comparatively elongated]. There is one in Europe (C garrula, Lin.).—Vivid sea-green, with red- dish-fulvous back and scapularies; some pure blue at the bend of the wing; and size about equal to that of a Jay. It is a very wild bird, thoufrh social with its own kind; noisy; which nestles in the holes of trees in the forests, and leaves at the approach of winter. It feeds oi worms, insects, and small Frogs. Some have the exterior tail-feathers elongated, [as in the common Swallow ; and there is one species, inhabit- ing South Africa, which is stated to perch and watch for prey on the horn of the Rhinoceros, giving notice to that animal of the approach of the hunter].. Fig. 94.—Sternum of RoUer. The Rolles {Colaris, Cuv., Eurystomus, Vieillot), jDlffer from the preceding by having a shorter and more arcuated bill, and paiticularly by its being widened at the base, whicli is broader than high. [Tlie species are less numerous; and there is one Inhabiting Australia.] The Birds-of-Paradi
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