BRASILIAN SAW-BILLED ROLLER. 
of the finest shades of blue and green, &c, 
but," adds he, a good figure is superior to 
every description. They build, when it is in 
their power, on Birches ; and it is only when 
they cannot find these, that they lodge in other 
trees : but, in countries where wood is scarce^ 
as in the Island of Malta, and in Africa, they 
form their nest, it is said, on the ground. A 
sportsman informed Mr. Godeheu that, in the 
month of June, he saw a Roller issuing from 
a bank of earth, where was a hole as large as 
the hand ; and that, having dug the spot in the 
dire6lion of the hole, which went horizontally, 
he found, at the depth of a foot, or there- 
abouts, a nest made of straw and thornSj in 
which were two eggs." 
These resemblances, though not, alone, 
decisive, must be obvious to every reader. 
