B E E - E A T E R. 671 



Inhabits Bengal. Place, 



Mr. OJbeck mentions one not unlike the above, which came from 



Java, where it was met with alive, but died after a confinement 



of a few days, 



Le Guefpier a collier de Bengale, Brif. orn. iv. p. 552* N° 9.-. 2. 



Bengal Bee-eater, Albin. iii. pi. 30. Var.. A. . 



DUFFON thinks this to be the very fame bird with the other ; Description. 



but by the defcription it is .faid to be two inches and a half 

 longer, being in total length eleven inches and a quarter ; and it 

 differs too from Brijfon's, in having the forehead blue, in this being 

 more like that defcribed by Edwards, and moll likely is a mere 

 variety of that bird. 



Merops iEgyptius, Forfch. Faun. Arab. p. 1 . N° 



Var. B. 



npHIS may perhaps prove a fecond variety; for it is exprefly Description, 



faid not to belong to the firft fpecies. The only defcription 

 given is, that the bird is wholly of a green colour : that the throat 

 is. yellow : the bill black and ftraitim : tongue bidentated : tail 

 feathers twelve in number,, and even at the end : legs of a flefli- 

 colour. 



This, he fays, is met within Egypt, and that the young are Place. 



fold in the month of June. The Arabian name is Chaddcsjr.- 



