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TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER 



Sides of the head as far as the ears, and a spot on each 

 side of the neck, naked : crown of the head, chin, and 

 nape, covered with feathers : culmen continued in an 

 elevated ridge on the front, where it abruptly terminates. 



Inhabits New Holland. Paris Mus. 



Having mislaid the description I made of this singular bird, 

 T cannot give further particulars. It has been evidently con- 

 founded with the common species, since it bore the name 

 of Merops eornicnlatus in the French museum, where the other 

 did not then (1828) exist. The state of the specimen enabled 

 me to make a drawing of the tongue, which has hitherto been 

 entirely unknown. The annexed cut is of the natural size. 



136. EuRYST03ius Australis. 



Sea green : crown grey brown : throat, quills, and 

 base of the tail feathers, vivid 

 blue : six of the greater quills 

 with a greenish white basal band. 



Inhabits New Holland. 



Smaller than E. orientalis. The 

 bill is less compressed, and there- 

 fore much broader. The colours 

 are lighter, but the wings much 

 bluer; the spurious wings are en- 

 tirely vivid blue, as well as the outer 

 webs of the quills ; while in orientalis 

 these parts are almost black, {fg. 68. a) 



137. EuRYSTOMUS orientalis Auct. 

 Sea green : crown black : throat blue : quills black ; 

 the base of four with a bluish green band. PI. Enl. 619. 

 Inhabits India, {jig. QQ. 6), 



