150 
4. 
WATTLED 
B.E. 
Description. 
Be RA aR, 
Merops carunculatus, Jud. Orn. 1. p. 276. 20. 
New Holland Bee-eater, PAi/l. Bot. Bay, t.p. 164. 
Wattled Bee-eater, White's Fourn. t. p. 144. male.—TId. p. 240. female. 
HIS fpecies is from fourteen to fifteen inches in length: in the 
male, the bill is black; noftrils pervious, but covered in part 
with a membrane; crown dufky: at the gape of the mouth a filvery 
band: behind the bafe of the under jaw, an elongated caruncle, of an 
orange colour, hanging down as in the Cock: the body is brown on 
the upper parts, the fhafts of the feathers whitifh: quills and _ tail 
dufky ; the laft cuneiform in fhape; the outer quills are white at 
the tips: the tail feathers are all of them more or lefs tipped with 
white: legs brownifh; the outer toe connected to the middle at the 
bale. : 
The female is faid to be ftouter of the two, more brilliant in plum- 
age, and the bill more curved: the tail fhorter: it is deftitute of a 
wattle ; but the feathers on the chin are dark, long, and hang dif- | 
fufely. 
At. General Davies’s is one of this fpecies, which differs; it is 
fmaller, twelve inches long; the whole bird appears brighter, and 
more ftreaked with white down the fhaft, {welling out into a fpot at 
the tip of each feather: no filvery band at the gape. It appears to 
be a young bird. In a full grown male, in the fame collection, the 
middle of the belly is yellow. 
Thefe birds probably differ greatly among each other, for in Mr. 
Lambert’s collection of drawings, | remarked one which had the top 
of the head and hind part of the neck black or dufky, the reft pale 
brown or dufky afh colour, each feather margined with whitifh, and a 
few dafhes of white on the back’ of the neck and back; top of the 
head, taking in the eyes, black: the under parts of the body are paler 
than the upper, with a few obfcure markings: the bill is black: legs 
I pale 
