414 CLASS AVES. 



Some have the base of the bill simple, and the skin 

 round the eye more or less naked. 



The genus Philemon, of Vieil., the Polochion of Com- 

 merson. 



Gracula Calvus, Lin. PI. Enl. t, 

 200. O. 



Ash ; beneath brown-gray ; head naked ; chest, quills, 

 and tail brown-black. 



Placed with Pastor by Temminck, and jEridotheres 

 by Vieillot. 



Merops Molluccensis, Lath. 

 Philemon Cinereus, Vieil. Meliphaga, Temm. 



Gray; cheeks black; orbits naked. Mollucca. 



Merops Phrygius, Shaw, Zool. 

 viii. t. 20. Lewin. N. H. B. t. 4. Le Merle EcailU, 

 Vail. O. A. t. 



Black ; yellow, varied ; eye-spot and outer tail-feathers 

 yellow. New Holland. 



Goruck, Shaw. Le Goruck, Vieil. O, 

 Dor. ii. t. 88. 



Head, upper and under part of body, and the wing- 

 coverts deep-green, inclining to brown ; most of the 

 feathers edged with white; space between the bill and 

 the eye, and skin round the eye naked and reddish. 



Philemon Chrysopterus, Vieil. 



Brown ; wing-spot fulvous ; quill and outer tail-feathers 

 white tipt : lorum or orbits reddish. Var. ? 



