296 MOTMOT. 



GENUS VIII— MOTMOT. 



1 Brazilian Motmot 



A. — Variegated Motmot 



B.— Variety 

 Paraguan Motmot 



JL HE bill in this Genus is pretty strong, slightly incurvated, and 

 indented* on the edges. 



Nostrils covered with feathers. 



Tongue long, narrow, feathered on the sides. 



Tail cuneiform. Toes placed three before and one behind, the 

 forward ones greatly united. 



This has been by Linnaeus joined to the Toucan, having many 

 things in common with it, but the situation of the toes being placed 

 in a different manner from that Genus, makes a separation necessary; 

 as all authors, except Linnaeus, have thought right to do. — It will 

 be observed too, that the edges of the bill are differently irregular, 

 but by no means serrated as in the Toucan Genus. — There appear to 

 be but two species of the Motmot, and even the second may, by some, 

 be esteemed only as a Variety. 



BRASILIAN MOTMOT —Pl. XXXI. 



Momotus Brasiliensis, Ind. Orn. i. 110. 



Ramphastos Momota, Lin. i. 152. Gm.Lin.'i. 357. Bor. Nat. ii. p. 98. 



Momotus, Bris. iv. 465. t. 35. 3. Id. Svo. ii. 175. 



Prionites Motmot, Tern. Man. Ed. 2d. p. 1. 



Momot, Rail, p. 164. Will. p. 298. Id. Engl. 386. 



Ispidse seu Meropi affinis, Guira Guainumbi, Raii. p. 49. Will. 103. t. 24. Id. Engl. 



p. 148. pl. 24. 

 Le Houtou, ou Motmot, Buf. vi. 430. t. 20. Pl. ml. 370. 

 Brasilian saw-billed Roller, Edw. pl. 328. 

 Brasilian Motmot, Gen. Syn. i. 338. pl. x. Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 42. pl. 3. Nat. Misc. 



pl. 861. 



THIS bird is nearly the size of a Magpie, and eighteen inches 



* This may be properly called indented, as it will be found different from any of the 

 Toucans, the edges of whose bills are serrated. 



