Coracias Collection

European roller, Coracias garrulus, and rosy starling, Pastor roseus. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d

Pied roller, Coracias varia (hooded butcherbird; Cracticus cassicus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Striated starling, Aplonis striata (Blue-striped roller, Coracias striata). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822

Blue-bellied roller, Coracias cyanogaster
Blue-bellied or blue-bodied roller, Coracias cyanogaster. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library: Ornithology

Goldcrests, Regulus regulus, and European roller, Coracias garrulus. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire

Cinnamon or broad-billed roller, Eurystomus
Cinnamon roller or broad-billed roller, Eurystomus glaucurus glaucurus. (Madagascar roller var.?, Coracias madagascariensis)

Indian Roller, Coracias benghalensis
Number 12 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

European roller, Coracias garrulus, and broad-billed roller, Eurystomus glaucurus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology

European roller, Coracias garrulus.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Coracias benghalensis
Plate 70, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Coracias garrulus semenowi, European roller
Plate 24 from Louis-Isidore Duperreys Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, (1826). From drawings made during his voyage to Chile, Peru, Polynesia, Indoneasia

Coracias benghalensis, Indian roller
Plate 48, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Roller Tumbler, domestic pigeon
This pigeon is from the collection of domestic pigeons donated to the Natural History Museum by Charles Darwin in 1867. The bird probably came from Darwins own aviaries

Coracias temminckii, purple-winged roller
Plate 56 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 1, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph

Coracias garrulus, european roller
The European Roller, Coracias garrulus, is the only member of the roller family of birds to breed in Europe

Coracina melashistos, dark-collared cuckoo-shrike nests
A painting by Khuleelooddeen, (c. 1830-40)

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