33* M O T M O T .
BRASILIAN
MOTMOT.
P i. X.
D es cri p tion.
RcmphaEos momota, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 152. N° 8.
Le, Momot, Bri/. urn. iv. p. 465.. pi. 35. f. 3'
•---- .... — dp Brelil, PI. enl. 370.
Le Hdutou ou Momot, Buf. oif. vi. p. 430. pi. 20.
Ifpidm feu Meropi afEnis— G u ir a G u a in u m b i , Rail S jn . p. 43. N° 4*
— Momot, Id. p. 164.—Will. urn. p. 386. pi. 24.
Brazilian faw-billed Roller, Ecfav. pi. 328.
Br. Mu/. Lev. Mu/.
is nearly equal to a Magpie in fize; and is about a foot
-*• and a half in length. The bill is an inch and three quarters
long, and indented on the edges; the indentations from eleven to
thirteen in number; k is dulky above, and flelh-coloured at the
bale, where it is furnifhed with a few briMes: the irides yellow:
and the tongue feathered, like, that of a Toucan 3 the upper part
and fides of the bill are encompaffed with black, which runs
through the eyes, and below them, ending in a point: the middle
of the crown is hlack; between that and the bill blue green;
and the hind .Head blue, fo that the crown feems furrounded with
blue; below this the colour is cheftnut: the hind part of the
neck, back, fcaipulars, and rump, green: quills blueifh, with
dulky ends : the under parts of the body greenifh buff-colour:
on the bread: are three or four narrow black feathers, forming a
fpot of that colour : the tail is ten inches and a half long, coro-
pofed of twelve feathers, and much cuneated.; the two middle
feathers are above three inches and a half longer than the next,
and the outer ones of all very Ihort j the fix middle one3 are
green, with the ends blue, and four of them tipped with black;
the orhhrs are wholly green, with the tips dulky : the legs
10 brown: