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a Titmoufe, and that it isa guide to the Hortentots, by directing them 
to the honey, which the bees lay up in the clefts of the rocks. 
The Bee-eater has been obferved at Martifhal,in Norfolk, in a flock, 
about twenty in number ; andone of them fhot by the reverend George 
Smith, which was exhibited to the Linnean Society. This flock pafled 
near the above place in June, and again, on their return in Oéfoder fol- 
lowing, 1793, but in reduced numbers. 
Merops erythropterus, Ind. Orn.i. p, 274. 15. x 
Red-winged Bee-eater, Gev. Syz. ti. p. 681. 14. pl. 31. RED-WINGED 
153 1B 
HAD an opportunity of examining feveral of thefe which were Descrrprion. 
in. the pofleffion of 7. Walcot, efquire ; one of which he added to 
my colleétion. The general length fix inches and a quarter: the 
tail a trifle forked;. the two middle feathers of the fame colour 
as the back; ‘all the others reddifh orange, with dufky ends; the 
outer feathers, as well of the tail as of the wings, greenifh brown out- 
wardly: the fecond quills and wing coverts alfo the colour of the 
back: through the eye, and paffing under it, is a black ftreak; chin 
and throat yellow; beneath thefe a triangular fpot of black; from 
thence to the vent rufous bay: legs weak and brown. 
Merops fafciculatus, Izd. Orn. i. p. 275.19. ys 3. 
, EAie YE 
Yellow tufted Bee-eater, Gen. Syn. ti. p. 683.18. Vare—Dixon’s Voy. p. 357- REE 
pl. 19. i B.E. 
Var. A, 
N this variety, the plumage did not differ from the general colour; Descarprion. 
but the ends of all the tail feathers were white. 
; Var. B. 
MONG thefe birds, I have remarked another variety, which Descrrprion. 
_. differed in having the tail feathers wholly black, and the fides 
under the wings rufous, 
