BIRDS. 



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they are only webbed near the bafe, which is white, marked on 

 the outward fides with a pale blue fpot; the fliafts are naked, and 

 black almoft to the ends, which are white, and dilate to the form 

 of a Spatula. This fpecies is of the fizeof a flare. The natives 

 of 'Ternate call this bird the Goddefs^ on account of the exquifite 

 brightnefs of its colors. 



Green-headed', Latham, ii. 620. PL Enl. 783. Head green, 

 furrounded with a band of black ; back, wings, and tail of the 

 fame color; on the two laft changing to bluifli green ; throat and 

 neck white : inhabits Euero. 



Molucca', Latha?7t, ii. 684. Le Polocbion de Buffon, vi. 477. Bee-eater, 

 cheeks black ; nape mixed with white ; general color of the reft 

 of the plumage grey, deepeft on the upper part ; tail compofed 

 of feathers of equal length. 



Crejled', Latham, i\. 6^1. Seb. Muf.'i. tab. 30. fig. 5. Head, Promerops. 

 throat, and neck of a fine black ; head moft elegantly crefted ; 

 wings, tail, and upper part of the body palechefnut; lower parts 

 light afli ; length from tip of the bill to the tail five inches ; of 

 the tail fourteen and a half ; the two middle feathers fourteen, 

 of the outmoft feathers only three. Seba calls it a Manucodiata, 

 or bird of Paradife. 



Ambolna-, Latham, ii. 741. Seb.Muf. ii. tab. 62. fig. 2. Cucopit, crkeper. 

 Rumph. V. 113. Head and neck yellow, edged with green ; breaft 

 ofarichjred; wings black, edges of the feathers yellow; reft 

 of the plumage, grey above, green beneath, all moft glofTy and 

 brilliant. This fpecies has a tubular tongue, and extra^fls with 

 it the honey of the flowers. It perhaps might be ranged among 

 the MeUJugi2. 



Amboina ; 



