BEE-EATER. 
pale brown: forehead dufky: neck and under parts white, a little 
mottled with dufky, moft fo on the throat and breaft: thighs barred 
dufky and white: acrofs the crown of the head black, paffing on each 
fide behind the eye, and bending down on each fide below the ears ; 
within this, behind and clofe tothe eye, a round {pot of yellow: the 
wings are black, but the greater part of the prime quills are yellow, 
with-dufky or black ends: the tail is long and cuneiform, the feathers 
dufky, tipped with white: legs ftrong and yellow. 
This bird inhabits New South Wales, and is faid to be a noify chat- 
tering fpecies, infomuch as to give the alarm in the manner of the 
Fay, fo as to prevent the fportfman getting a fhot at the Patregorang. 
THis is a large fpecies: the bill ftout and bending, colour black ; 
tongue very briftly at the end, appearing like a brufh: the head 
and part of the neck are black, and covered with a fort of down: 
the nape at the back part is elongated with a kind of briftly tuft: 
the htnd parts of the neck and back are brown, the firft mottled with 
a paler colour; the under parts white, marked on the chin and throat 
with dufky fagittal ftreaks: quills and tail dark brown: legs dufky 
blue. f 
This is found about Port fack/on, in New Holland, in Fanuary. The 
hind head projecting, and being of a black downy texture, giving the 
refemblance of a cowl or hood, has occafioned it to be called a Friar. 
The natives call it Vergan. 
HIS is fomewhat bigger than the Red-winged Bee-eater: the bill 
black: legs dufky: top of the head and nape dull orange, the 
middle of the feathers darker; through the eye from the bafe of the 
bill a broad black ftreak, continuing a good way beyond it, and 
De 1 ending 
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COWLED 
B.E. 
Descrirrion. 
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VARIEGATED 
Beeps 
Description. 
