6 7 a P E' E - E A -T E % 



2 . --Merops viridis, -£/'». Syjl. i. p. 183. N" 2. 



INDIAN Jfpida viridis fupra ferruginea, OJb. Foy. i. p. 147. 



"' -Gnefpier a collier de Madagafcar^ £«/, erff. iv. p. 549. N 8 8. pi. 42, f, 3, 



— 77. ail, 740. 

 ' Le Guepier vert a gorge bleue, 2?k/". «//". vi. p. 497. 

 Indian Bee-eater, Ed<iu.iv, pi. j^.— Gta. of Birds, p. 60. pi. 7. 



Description. Ty*HIS does not exceed a Sparrow in fize, but is longer in the 

 body : length eight inches and three quarters. Bill thirteen 

 lines and a half long, and black : the upper parts of the body arc 

 green gold : the upper tail coverts the fame, but inclining to 

 blue : the under parts of the body are green, changing to blue 

 tinder the throat : on each fide of the head is a black band, 

 from the bill palling under the eyes : beneath the throat is an-, 

 ether band of the fame, like a collar : under die wings fulvous : 

 quills moftly green, with the inner webs more or lefs fulvous, and 

 beneath chiefly cinereous, and tipped with black: tail green 

 above j the fidje feathers edged with cinereous on the inner, 

 webs ; the two middle ones above two inches longer than the, 

 others j and, as far as they exceed them in length, are very nar- 

 row, and blackiih •, the webs of all of them are brown above, and 

 whitifh beneath : the legs and claws are brown. 



That defcribed by Edwards has the forehead, cheeks, and 

 throat, blue : breaft and belly light green : hind part of the head 

 and neck orange red : between the blue and green on the bread 

 is a black crefcent, and a black ftroke through the eyes : back 

 and wing coverts parrot green : rump blue green : greater quilb 

 black ; the middle ones orange, bordered with green, and fpotted 

 with black within the tips, which are orange. 



Inhabits 



