92 FORK-TAILED, BLUE-VENTED BEE-EATER. 



of the throat and breast by a collar of brilKant sky- 

 blue ; front of the head, light greenish blue ; ears 

 and stripe through the eye, as usual in all the 

 other species, deep black; beneath the ears is a 

 whitish spot, blended with the blue and yellow of 

 the throat, and there is also a whitish band across 

 the vent. Quill-feathers cinnamon colour with broad 

 black tips, the ends of the feathers deeply emar- 

 ginate. Tail-feathers pointed, dark green, with 

 blackish bands near the tips, which colour passes 

 into bluish-white ; inner wing-covers and quills, 

 cinnamon ; tail beneath, blackish. 



Total length, 8^ inches ; bill, from the gape, 1 T % ; 

 wings. 3^ ; tail beyond, 3 ; ditto from the base, 4 J ; 

 depth of the fork, 1|- ; tarsus, ^ ; middle toe, T V 



