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fame, paffing through the eyes to the hind head : over the eyes 

 a ftripe of white : and beneath the eye a rufous fpot : the upper 

 parts of the neck, body, wings, and tail, are very bright green, 

 and the under parts rufous : the quills are blue : and the tail fea- 

 thers green on the outer eeges : legs and claws black. 



This inhabits the Eaft Indies. Brijfon defcribed it from a; 

 painting fent. to him from M. Poivre.. 



24. 



TERNATE. 



K. 



Alcedo dea, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 18 1. N° 13. 



Le Martin-pefcheur de Ternate, Brif. orn. iv. p. 525. N° 26. pi. 40. f. z, 



—PL enl. 116. 

 Le Martin-pecheur a longs brins, Buf. oif. vii. p. 196. 

 Martin-pecheur des Moluques, Salem, orn. p. 126. N° 10. 



Inscription. QIZE of a Starling : total length thirteen inches and a quarter. 

 Bill fhort, and above half an inch thick at the bafe, and an. 

 inch and three quarters long ; the colour a fine orange : the head 

 and hind part of the neck are glofTy blue, lighteft on the top of 

 the head : the back and fcapulars brown, margined with deep 

 blue: wing coverts blue: quills the fame; the infides and tips 

 black : the under parts of the body and rump white, with a tinge 

 of rofe-colour : the tail confifts of ten feathers ; the two middle 

 ones are very long, and exceed the next by four inches, and the 

 outer ones by five inches and a half; the two long feathers 

 are webbed only' about one-third from the bafe, and at the tips, 

 the intermediate parts almoft naked, and of a blue colour; the 

 bafe and tips rofe- coloured white, with a blue fpot on the outer 

 web; the reft of the tail feathers are of a rofy white, with the 

 outer edges brown : the legs and claws are reddifh. 



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