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black, tipped with red: tail half yellow, half green : the legs are 

 yellow. 



Said to inhabit various parts of Europe, but particularly Place. 



Slrajburg, according to Gefner*. 



Merops fuperciliofus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 183. N* 4. 4. 



Le Guefpier de Madagafcar, Brif. orn. iv. p. 545. N° 7. pi. 42. f. u— SUPERCILIOUS 



PI. enl. 259. 

 La Patirich, Buf. oif. vi. p. 495. 

 Merops Perfica, Pallas Trav. vol. ii. p. 708. N° 16. tab, D. 



/ "T" S HIS bird is eleven inches four lines in length. The bill is Description. 



black, and an inch and three quarters long : on the fore- 

 head is a narrow tranfverfe greenifh white band, which paries over 

 each eye : another of the fame colour arifes at the bale of the 

 lower mandible, and paries under the eye, both tending towards 

 the hind head ; between which the parts are black ; and in the 

 middle of this black fpace the eye is placed : the upper part of 

 the throat is of a yellowifh white, the lower cheftnut : the up- 

 per part of the head dull greenifh cheftnut; each appearing 

 in different fhades of light : the hind parts of the neck, and 

 upper parts of the body, dull green, growing lighter towards 

 the rump : the greater wing coverts green, margined with brown 

 alh within : the under parts of the body are green, but paler than 

 the upper parts ; paleft near the vent : the quills are green, and 

 many of them black at the ends; the firft the fhorteft : the tail is 

 dull green ; the inner webs of all but the two middle ones are 



* I. on. am p. 98. 



4 R cinereous: 



