160 CAYENNE BEE-EATER. 



unlike that of a Woodpecker, and calculated for 

 piercing insects : the breast was reddish : the back, 

 wings and belly whitish, but the upper parts and 

 tips of the wings ferruginous : the upper part of 

 the back yellowish, but becoming reddish or ferru- 

 ginous at the rump : the tail-feathers were white 

 at the base, but ferruginous for the remainder of 

 their length, arid the two middle feathers exceeded 

 the rest two palms in length. The wings, in Al- 

 drovandus's figure, appear very long in proportion 

 to the bird, and the author says they measured five 

 palms in length : the tail itself also, exclusive of 

 the two middle feathers, appears of considerable 

 length. ' 



CAYENNE BEE-EATER. 



Merops Cayanensis. M. viridis, alis caudaque riifis, remigibus 



basi albis. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Green Bee-Eater, with rufous wings and tail ; the base of the 



quill-feathers white. 



Le Guepier vert a ailes et queue rousses. Buff. ois. PI. Enl. 454. 

 Cayenne Bee-Eater. Lath. syn. 



DESCRIBED by Buffon. Size of the Common 

 Bee-Eater, or rather smaller : colour pale subci- 

 nereous green, except the quill-feathers and tail, 

 which are bright ferruginous or red: the green 

 colour is paler beneath than above, and the throat- 

 feathers, according to the representation in the 

 Planches Enluminees, appear to have white shafts, 

 *s in some of the Rollers: the smaller wing-coverte 



