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,, z ' ~ Le petit Guefpier des Philippines, Brif. orn. iv. p. 555. N° 10. f. z. 



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Description. 'T'HIS is fix inches and a half long, and the fame in plumage 

 with the others, excepting that the ftreak on each fide of the 

 head, and the band on the throat, are blue : and the two middle 

 tail feathers do not exceed the others in length, but are narrow 

 the whole way, and black : indeed it is very probable, that the 

 bird might have loft the two old feathers, and that thefe might 

 have been two new ones not yet arrived at their full growth . 

 in which circumftance, this bird would be very little fhorter than 

 the firft defcribed, as the excefs of length in that arofe merely from 

 the two middle feathers ; both Linnaus and Buffon have there- 

 fore fet them down as varieties only. 



3. Merops congener, Lin. Sjjl. i. p. 183. N° 3. 



YELLOW- Lg Guefpier a telle jaune, Brif. orn. iv. p. c \7. K 2. 



HEADED 



■o L'l&erocephale, ou le Guepier a tete jaune, Buf. oif. vi. p. $m. 



Merops alter, feu Meropi congener, Rati Syn. p. 49. N° 4. 



The other Bee-eater of Aldrovandus, Will, orn, p. 148. 



Description. HPHIS is a trifle bigger than the common Bee-eater. The head, 

 throat, and all the under parts, are yellowifh : on each fide 

 of the head is a broad black band, which begins at the bafe of the 

 bill, and paffes through the eyes towards the neck : back and fca- 

 pulars fine cheftnut : rump, and upper tail coverts, mixed green 

 and yellow : lefTer wing coverts blue} the middle ones mixed blue 

 and yellow j and the greater ones entirely yellow : the quills are 



black, 



