-13 BIRDS. PlDi0. •j. Momotus. S. Scytiitops. 
Qg.ru.ku 5 , Blue mixed with cinereous. Sltif 
Iiiluibits coafts of Nerj’ Spain; fiae of the laff. 
Jitll longer than the body ; fjcs black ; ind.f tawny. 
Duiiiis, Chili blue< Blut-throated 
Aliuf. Entirely white. If'hitc T’’' 
j^.MOMOl USa Bill flrong, flightly curvef^t 
ferrate at the edges : nojirils feathered '> 
tongue feathered : tail wedged : 
grefforial. 
Brajilua- Green 5 front blucilh-green ; liind-hcad violet ; crot''*’ 
^ black. ^ ' Brafdian Motmaf' 
2. Variegated with green, tawny, blue and cinereous. 
Inhibits fize of a blackbird; 18 inches long; livc^ 
folitarily in unfrequented forefts, building a neft of drir^ 
grafi on the ground, or in holes abandoned by the armadiU^’ 
and lays 2 eggs; feeds on infefts and raw flefli, the fragment* 
of which it macerates in water ; when taken flrikes violent!/ 
with its bill ; voice harlh, weak, tremulous. 
Body above olive-grcen, beneath rufty ; head large ; 
blue, black in the middle ; bill black, hardly 2 inches lon^ • 
kgs black; claws hooked. 
8. SCYTHROPS. large, convex, fharp" 
edged, cliannelled atthe fides, hooked 
at the point : nojirils naked, rounded/ 
at the bafe of the bill: tongue earth 
lagenous, fplit at the point: 
climbers. 
PJiittaccus, S,, 
Inhabits New South Wales; fize of a crow, but from 
length of the tail meafures 2 feet 2 inches long. 
pale brown tipt with ycllowilh, convex, keeled; no/’''? 
fuuouuded with 3 ted wrinkled fkb; or^ttr naked; kej> 
■neck, and under parts of the body pale blueilh-grey ; 
rmngs_ and tad cinereous, the feathers moftly with dulk/' 
blackifli tips ; tail long, wedged, the 2 middle feathers 
inches, all barred with black near , the end, and tipt s''®®*' 
white ; kgs fliort, fcaly, and with the hooked claws black* 
9. BUCEROS* 
