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KNOB-FRONTED BEE-EATER. 



Merops corniculatus. M. fuscus, capite corpore subtus apicequc 



caudce albis, corniculo frontali obtuso. 

 Brown Bee-Eater, with the head, under parts of the body, and 



tip of tail white, and obtuse frontal horn. 

 Merops corniculatus. M . fuscus, capite nudiusculo, corpore subtus 



rectricibusque apice albidis, corniculo frontali obtuso. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Knob-fronted Bee-Eater. White's Voy. Bot. Bay, p. 190. 

 Le Corbi Calao. Levaill. Cal. pi. 24- 



DESCRIBED and figured in Mr. White's Journal 

 of a Voyage to New South Wales. It is about the 

 size of a Blackbird, or rather larger : the plumage 

 brown above, and white beneath: the head and 

 upper part of the neck sparingly covered with nar- 

 row white feathers, almost like hairs ; but the fore 

 part of the neck and breast are furnished with long 

 ones, of a white colour with a dark middle streak, 

 and pointed at the ends : the tail is pretty long, 

 and the feathers tipped with white : the bill about 

 an inch in length, and pale; but what is most re- 

 markable is that on the forehead, just at the base 

 of the bill, is a short blunt knob, about a quarter 

 of an inch in height, and of a brownish colour : the 

 tongue is nearly of the length of the bill, and 

 bristly at the end: the legs are dark brown. Monsr. 

 Levaillant, who has figured this species in his work 



