ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLERS AND THEIR ALLIES
THE ROLLERS
Rollers
The members of the second subfamily {Coraciincae), to the number of five or six genera and thirty or more species, are quite widely dispersed over the temperate and tropical portions of the Old World, being most abundant in the Ethiopian region. Many of them are very brilliant in plumage with combinations of blue, green, and reddish, and they take the common name of Rollers from the peculiar evolutions they execute while on the wing.
They possess a strong, almost Crow-like bill, with the narrow nostrils placed near the base of the upper mandible and nearly hidden by bristly feathers, but, unlike those last considered, they are without the powder-down patches on the rump; the sexes are alike in coloration.
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