BS EPEC VANE aR 
the crown and nape, wholly black: fides of the body under the wings 
marked with tive dark blueith bands: quills and tail pale blue, marked 
outwardly on the edges evith white fpots, within darker; the tail 
even at the end, or a trifle rounded, the wings reaching thereon to. 
about the middle: legs yellow brown. 
The female, or one fuppofed to be fo, was brown on the back and 
wines, and dirty yellowifh white beneath, with dafhes down the fhafts, 
as in the male: the forehead is brown and white fpotted; the reft of 
the head brown, where in the ma/e it is black: the tail feems fhorter 
“than in thé male, and appears in the drawing to be wholly fpotted 
with dirty yellow and brown, or rather dirty yellow, with the brown 
{pots in bars: bill and legs as in the male. 
I am obliged to General Davies for the above defcriptions, having 
made drawings of them from fpecimens in the pofleflion of Captain 
King, which were brought from Port Fack/on, in New South Wales. 
Red-throated Bee-eater, Nat. Mie. 9. pl. 337- 
SIZE a trifle lefs than. the common fpecies: general colour on the 
upper parts black: the forehead fine blue, paffing a little way over 
the eye; behind the eye a patch of the fame: the fore part of the 
throat and neck of a fiery red: rump blue, marked with {pots of 
black: belly clouded blue and black: fome of the quills and taii 
feathers have blue edges ; the bafe of the greater quills ferruginous, 
forming a patch of that colour on the wings; the wings when clofed 
reach but little beyond the bafe of the tail, which is even at the end, 
or nearly fo. 
Inhabits Sierra Leona in Africa,. 
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