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WATTLED BEE-EATER, 



Mcrops carunculatus. M. fuscus, abdomine flavo, palcaribus 

 cariMCulat'iSy cauda cuneiformi apice alba. Lath. ind. orn. 



Brown Bee-Eater, with yellow abdomen, with reddish wattles 

 beneath the bill, and cuneated tail with white tip. 



New-Holland Bee-Eater. Phill. Bot. Bay, pi. p. 164. Lath, 

 ind. orn. 



Corvus paradoxus ? Daudin. orn. 



SIZE of a Missel Thrush, but much longer in 

 proportion, measuring about fourteen inches : the 

 feathers on the upper part of the head are some- 

 what longer than the rest, giving the appearance 

 of a slight crest: the plumage of the bird is brown, 

 the feathers long and pointed, and each feather has 

 a white longitudinal middle streak: beneath the 

 eye on each side the head, beyond the base of the 

 lower mandible, is a lengthened pendent wattle of 

 an orange-colour : the middle of the belly is yellow: 

 the tail wedge-shaped, like that of a Magpie, and 

 the feathers tipped with white : the bill and legs 

 are brown. In some individuals a silvery streak 

 appears beyond each side of the bill, and in the 

 young birds the white streaks on the plumage ter- 

 minate in a kind of dilated spot at the tip of each 

 feather. Native of New Holland; described and 

 figured in White's Voyage to New South Wales. 

 There can be little doubt that the Corpus paradoxus 

 of Monsr. Daudin, already described under that 

 genus, is in reality the same bird with the present. 



