RED-THROATED BEE-EATER* 1?7 



lour above green, accompanied by a slight gilded 

 gloss : throat yellow : forepart of the neck chesnut ; 

 remainder of the under parts blue : tail strongly 

 cuneated : across the eyes a mixed black and grey 

 stripe : bill black j legs ash-colour* Native of An- 

 gola. 



RED- THROATED BBE-EATER* 



Merops gularis. M. niger, frunte uropygioque camlets, abdomine 

 cceruleo maculato, gula rubra. Vivar. Nat. vol. 9. t. 33 J. 



Black Bee-Eater, with the forehead and rump blue, the abdomen 

 spotted with blue ; the throat red. Nat. Misc. vol. 9. pi. 337. 



THIS beautiful species I have before described in 

 the Naturalist's Miscellany. Its size is rather 

 smaller than that of the Common Bee-Eater, and 

 its prevailing colour the finest velvet-black : the 

 forehead is of the richest blue, passing a little 

 above and beyond the eyes on each side : the rump 

 is also blue, rivalling that of the Kingfisher : the 

 scapulars and two middle tail-feathers are edged, 

 and the abdomen clouded or mottled with the same 

 colour : the throat is of a bright blood-red, the 

 larger wing-coverts and middle quill-feathers bor- 

 dered with bright ferruginous : the tail is even at 

 the end ; the bill and legs black. Native of Sierra 

 Leona in Africa. 



v. vni. p. i. 12 



