BRASILIAN SAW-BILLED ROLLER. 
The following is the description of Ed- 
wards; who premises, that it is short-legged 
ill porportion, and not long-winged. 
The bill is pretty strait, moderately bend- 
ing downward at the point, and toothed on the 
edges like a saw ; the upper mandible is dusky, 
the nethern flesh-coloured towards it's basis. 
The nostrils are covered with small "black fea- 
thers i and there are some black bristles, point- 
ing forward, round the upper mandible. The 
upper part and sides of the bill are encom- 
passed with black: from which run black 
lines through the eyes ; and broader black 
lists, mixed with a little blue, from the corners 
of the mouth down the sides of the neck. The 
top of the head is of an ultramarine blue; 
though, next the bill, inclining to sea-green : 
in the middle of this blue space, on the crown 
of the head, there is a black spot. It has a 
spot of black feathers, edged with blue, on the 
fore-part of the neck, a little below the 
throat ; otherwise the whole under side, from 
the bill to the covert-feathers beneath the tail, 
is of an olive or greenish bufF-colour. Marc- 
grave says, the eyes are yellow. On the neck, 
behind, 
