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are tipped with white, forming a slight bar of that 

 colour across the upper part of the wings : tail 

 rather long than short, and even at the end : bill 

 black : legs brown. Native, according to the 

 Planches Enluminees, of Cayenne. 



SUPERB BEE-EATER. 



Merops superbus. M. ruber, frontc gula uropygioque cterulcu, 

 rectricibus duabus intcrmediis longioribus. Vivarium Naturae, 

 t. 78. 



Red Bee-Eater, with front, throat, and rump blue, and the two 

 middle tail-feathers longer than the rest. Nat. Misc. pi. /8. 



THE size of this splendid bird is nearly that of 

 the Common or European Bee-Eater, and its co- 

 lour a fine ruby-red, with the front, throat, and 

 rump blue, the tips of the secondary quill-feathers 

 dull green, and those of the larger or primary ones 

 black : the two middle tail-feathers are producer! to 

 a very considerable extent beyond the rest, the 

 lengthened part being very narrow and of a black 

 colour : the bill is also black. 



irp 9 

 ,fm 'to 



V. VIII. P. I. 11 



