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PHILIPPINE BEE-EATER. 



Merops Pliilippinus. M. wricks, subtusfla'cesccns, vropygio c&ru- 



leo, cauda (equali. Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Green Bee-Eater, yellowish beneath, with blue rump, and eveo 



tail. 



Apiaster Philippensis major. Briss. orn. 

 Guepierde Madagascar. PL Enl. 215. 

 Philippine Bee-Eater. Lath. syn. 



DESCRIBED by Brisson. Length about nine 

 inches : colour green above, with a slight gloss of 

 copper-colour : beneath yellowish : rump and tail 

 blue or sea-green : quill-feathers tipped with black, 

 and fulvous on the inner webs : across the eyes a 

 black stripe : bill black ; legs brown : tail rather 

 short, and even at the end. Native of the Philip- 

 pine isles. 



PIED BEE-EATER. 



Merops picatus. M. albo nigroqve varius, rostro albido apicefusco, 



pedibus nigris. 

 Bee-Eater varied with black and white; the bill whitish with 



dusky tip : the legs black. 



SIZE of a small pigeon: length about twelve 

 inches : bill whitish, with dusky tip : whole bird 

 varied with glossy jet-black and milk-white, in the 

 following manner, viz. head and neck, both above 



