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Show 310 AVES. TEMIA, Vaill. ( 1) The tail and carriage of the Pies, with an elevated beak, whose upper mandible is arched, the base furnished with velvet feathers almost like the Birds of Paradise. The most anciently known, Corvus varians, Lath.; Vaill. Afr. 56; Vieill. Gal. 106, is of a bronze green. It is found in Africa and in India.(2) GLAUCOPIS, Forster.(3) The same beak and carriage, but there are two fleshy caruncles under the base of the former. The species known, Glaucopis cinerea, Lath. Syn. I, pl.xiv, is from New Holland, and is the size of a Pie; blackish, with a cuneiform tail. It feeds on insects and berries, and perches but seldom. Its flesh is highly esteemed. CoRACIAs, Lin.( 4) The rollers have a strong beak, compressed near the point, which is a little hooked. The nostrils are oblong, placed at the edge of the feathers, but without being covered by them; the feet short and stout. They belong to the eastern continent, and are like the Jays in their habits and in the loose feathers on the forehead. Their colours are vivid, but rarely harmonious. Some peculiarities of their anatomy approximate them to the Kingfishers and Pies, such as two emarginations in their sternum, a single pair of muscles to their inferior larynx, and a membranous stomach.(5) THE RoLLERs, properly so called, Have a straight beak, every where higher than wide. There is one in Europe. Coracias garrula, L.; Enl. 486. (The Common Roller.) Se.a· green; back and scapulars fawn-coloured; pure blue on the tlp of the wing; about the size of the Jay. It is a very wild bird, although sociable enough with its fellows, noisy, nestles in the (1) Vieillot has changed this name into CnYPSIRINA, Gal. 106; Horsfield into that of PnnENoTnxx. Temminck unites TEMIA with Gu11coPIS. (2) Add. Glaucopis leucoptera, Tern. Col. 285;-Gl. temnura, Jd. Co]. 337. (3} Bechstein substitutes the term Callmas for that of Glaucopis. tblt (4) This name, consecrated by Linnreus, has been changed by VieiUotinto ofGALGALus, which, among the ancient Latins, belonged to the Oriole. (5) Nitsch, ap. Nauman, II, p. 156. PASSERlNJE. 311 . hollows of trees, and migrates in winter. I t 1" ee d s on worms, insects and small frogs. There ~re some Rollers foreign to Europe, which have a s.q uare tall( 1); the external quills in that of the E uropean spe-ctes, however, are somewhat elongated in the m 1 tl fi t · d' · f 1 · a e, 1e rs m 1cat10n o t 1e1r great length in several others.(2) CoLARis, Cuv.(3) Di·f fe1rs f1r om· Coracias in a shorter and more arcuated 1) ea k , an d partie~ ar Y m the enlargement of its base, which is more broad than htgh.(4) P ARADISJEA, Lin. The Birds of Paradise, like the Crows, have a strong straight co, mpressed be. ak, without any emarginat1'ons , and w1' th co' vere d nos-' tnls; but th.e mfluence of the climate they 1'nhab1't, an m· fl uence ex-tended to bt.rds of several other genera, gives a velvet tissue to the feathers wh1c~ cover th~se nostrils, and frequently a metallic lustre, at the same t1me that It singularly developes those which cover severa! ~a.rts ~f the body. They are natives of New Guinea and of the adJotmn.g 1sla~ds; and as it is difficult to obtain them except from t~e savage mhabttants of those countries, who prepare them by cutting off t~e wings and feet, it was thought for some time that the first sp~c1es. was really destitute of those members, and lived constantly m atr, supporting itself there by its long feathers. Travellers, .however, having succeeded in obtaining perfect individuals of ~ertu~ species, it is now known that their feet and wings indicate ;~el~r clatm t~ the place we have assigned to them. They are said tve on fru1ts, and to be particularly fond of aromatics. (I) Coracias bengalen · E I og · · d S'ts, .. n · "' 5, IS ev1dently the same as the indica Edw 326 aVn aial)s! the . fi ~· .o f Alb·m . I, 17, quoted under caudata,·-Coracias viri' dia, N· ob.; (2)· c'3 1,. V Ielll. G.a l.. 110;-C. Teminckii ' Vai]l ., pl. G. 327 C oraczas a~Y·9S'tntca, Enl. 626, and its variety C. senega/a, En1. 326, Edw. diti · · caudata IS m ere1 Y a n m· dl' V'ld ua1 of the same species, disfigured by the ad-Vaiolln of the head of b lensi V '11 . 1 . a enga s ( a1 .Joe. c1t., p. 105).-Cor. cyanogaster, Nob., ., oc. Cit. pl. xxvi. N.B. Cor. cafl'ra h Sl nilen.t)·- .w• '. w ere 1aw quotes Edw. 320, can only be a Thrush ( Tt~rdua Thn h C. sm~s, Enl. 620, by its emarginated beak also approaches either the llrep:ae:n~ ~e Sh~ikes. M. Shaw thi~ks that C. viridis, Lath. is an .O.lcedo.-C. Piauh • varta, Lath. are Cass1cans; C. militaris and C. scutata Shaw Enl 6a1u6 s;-C • mexicana ' S e b · 1' P1 · 1X ·I V, f.• 5, 1•s the Jay of Canada·-C. ' cayana ' · ' a Tanager. ' · ' tba{3t )o fC Eo/ aria is the G reek name of an unknown b.1 rd.-Vieillot has changed it into l1RY8TOJI[US. (4) Coracias orient l' Lath. Vaill 1 . au, Enl. 619;-Cor. madagascariensis, Enl. 501;-Cor. afra, • OC. Cit., pl. XXXV. |