ORDER PASSERES. 403 



Malimbic Bee-eater. {Me. Malimhicus.) Shaw. Or 

 Bicolor. Daud. Ann. du Mus. I. 62. Vaill. 5. 

 VieiU. Gal. 186. 



Head and neck, slate colour ; body, wings, and tail, 

 vinaceous; dark streak through the eyes. Ten inches. 

 Malimba. 



Red-throated Bee-eater. M. Gularis. Nat. 

 Mis. 337. 



Velvet-black, throat ; blood-red, forehead ; rump, 

 scapulars, and two middle tail-feathers, edged with 

 blue. Sierra Leone. 



The Ruffed Bee-eater. (M. Amictus.) Col. 310. 



Top of the head, green ; blue and pink, throat ; and 

 fore-part of breast covered with large, loose, deep-red 

 feathers. Sumatra. 



The M. Daudin. Vaill. 14, seems allied to the 

 Philippine Bee-eater. 



Coromandel Bee-eater. (M. Coromandus.) Lath. 

 Sonnerat's Second Voy. or G. Cytrin. Vaill. 11. 



Head and neck, yellow ; beneath, greenish-yellow *, 

 black streak through the eye. 



Varied Bee-eater. M. Quinticolor. Vaill. 15. 



Throat, orange-yellow, with a blackish-green collar ; 

 scapulars, and upper wing-coverts, green ; rump, 

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