BRASILIAN SAW-BILLED ROLLER. 
backward. The outward fore toes are joined 
to the middle ones, ahnost their whole leneth. 
The feet are broad, and flat : the toes seem to 
have narrow membranes on their sides, which 
give them breadth.'* 
To this minute description, Edwards adds, 
that "the bird was taken in a French prize, 
by Capt. Shirley, now Earl Ferrers ; and is, 
undoubtedly, the same that Marcgrave has de- 
scribed under the name of Guira Guainumbi, 
though his description diflers a little from- 
mine. It is a native of Brasil, and other warm 
parts of South America. I have been as par- 
ticular as I could in it's description ; there be- 
ing, I think, some difficulty, from the uncom- 
monness of the bill and tail, to know how to 
class it: so that, I hope, the system-makers of 
this age will easily find it a proper place. Mr. 
Brisson has figured and described this bird, by 
the name of Le Momot. See his Ornitholo- 
gie, Tom. iv. Page 46 3. PI. xxxv. Fig. 3. 
Ills description differs from mine; especially, 
in not remarking the form of the middle fea- 
thers of the tall, so remarkable in Marcgrave's 
and my figures. I apprehend, they were the 
same 
