CHATTERING BEE-EATER. 1?1 



outer webs, and the tips greenish yellow : tail 

 rounded; of a pale greenish lead-colour, with a 

 dirty white tip: legs yellow-brown." Native of 

 New Holland. 



BLUE-CHEEKED BEE-EATER. 



Merops cyanops. M.fascus subtus albus, capite svpra gulaque 

 nigris, macula ocufari cyanea. Lath. ind. orn. stippl. , 



Brown Bee-Eater, white beneath, with black crowu and throat, 

 and blue eye-spot. 



Blue-cheeked Bee-Eater. Lath. syn. suppL 2. 



LENGTH sixteen inches: colour brown above, 

 white beneath : crown of the head, back of the 

 neck, and throat black, but the eyes are surround- 

 ed by a naked ? blue patch : tail even : bill black ; 

 legs blue. Native of New Holland. 



CHATTERING BEE-EATER. 



Merops garrulus. M. fmcus subtus albus, fascia verticis nigra, 

 macula pone oculos remigibusquc magna ex partc Jtams. Lath, 

 ind. orn. suppl. 



Brown Bee-Eater, white beneath, with a black stripe on the 

 crown, a yellow eye-spot, and the greater part of the quill- 

 feathers yellow. 



Chattering Bee-Eater. Lath. ind. orn. suppl. 2. 



SIZE of a Thrush : body pale brown above, white 

 beneath ; the breast spotted and the thighs barred 

 with brown : wings black, but most of the larger 

 quill-feathers yellow with black tips: across the 

 top of the head a black bar, passing downwards 



