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6. 
SUPERB 
B.k. 
Duscriprion. 
oe 
EASTERN 
B. E- 
Descrierion. 
PLACE. 
8. 
BLUE GREEN 
B. E. 
DescRIPTION. 
9. 
HOODED 
Bebe 
DeEsCRIPTION. 
BEE-EA TER. 
Superb Bee-eater, Nat. Mic. pl. 78. 
HIS is nearly nine inches in length: the bill black: general 
colour of the plumage red: the forehead, all round the eye, and 
throat blue: rump blue: the two middle tail feathers are longer than 
the reft, and the parts which exceed the others are black. 
This isinthe Briti/h Mufeum. Dr. Shaw feems to think it allied 
to the Bra/filian Bee-eater, in which opinion { readily join him. 
IZE of the Red-winged Bee-eater: the general colour dull green : 
the feathers rather full: quills red but not bright; the outer 
edges of them dull green, with black tips: tail green; the two middle 
feathers produced beyond the others, where they are narrow and 
black, as far as they exceed them. 
This {pecies is in the Briti/h Mufeum, faid to come from the 
Mabhratta country in India. 
ENGTH eight inches: colour of the whole plumage blue 
ereen, with a deeper glofs, appearing black in fome lights: legs 
black. 
The native place of this is uncertain. 
Lewes from nine to ten inches: bill yellow, curved, and 
rather ftout; tongue twice the length of it, and fringed at the 
tip: front of the head whitifh; acrofs the crown of the head black, 
which colour pafies through the eyes on each fide to the throat; the 
reft of the head whitifh grey and dufky, in fine tranfverfe lines: 
belly dirty white, croffed with clouded dufky lines: upper parts of 
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