BRASILIAN SAW-BILLED ROLLER. 
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' behind, is a crescent-like mark of a reddish 
colour. The sides of the head, hinder part of 
the neck, back, rump, and covert-feathers of 
the wings, are of a Parrot-green colour. The 
greater quills are blue, with dusky tips : a few 
of the first row of coverts above them, are also 
blue. A few of the quills next the back are 
green. The coverts within-side the wings 
are of a yellowish brown ; the insides of the 
quills dark ash-colour. I counted only ten 
feathers in the tail, which seemed to me per- 
fe6l. The tail-feathers are of a fine blue co- 
lour ; gradually changing to green at their bot- 
toms, and having, all of them, black tips. 
The under side of the tail is of a dark, dusky 
, colour. What is very singular in this bird is,, 
that the two long feathers in the middle of the 
tail seem as if they were stripped of their 
webs, on each side, for an inch space, a little 
within their tips: which is, however, natural,, 
and particularly taken notice of by Marc- 
grave. The side feathers .of ihe tail gradually 
shorten, to a third of the length of the mid- 
dlemost. The legs, feet, and claws, are of a 
brownish flesh-colour. Marcgrave says, they 
are black. It has three toes forv>'ard3 and one 
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