BEE-EATER. 



and tipper tail coverts are blue green : on each fide the head is 

 a flxipe of black, beginning at the upper mandible, and paffing 

 through the eyes : throat yellowifh, fhadedwith green, and fulvous - t 

 the lower part of it moft inclined to fulvous : the fore part of the 

 neck, and under parts of the body, yellowifh green, gloried with 

 fulvous : under tail coverts pale blue green : the quills the fame 

 as the back, but fulvous within; many of them have blackifh 

 tips : tail of equal length ; the two middle feathers are blue green ; 

 the others the fame ; but the inner edges cinereous : the {hafts 

 blackifh above and white beneath : legs and claws brown. 

 Inhabits the Philippine IJlands. 



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Place. 



Merops cinereusj Lin.SyJl. I. p. 183. N° 6. 

 Le Guefpier du Mexique, Brif. orn. iv. p. 541. 

 Le Guepier a tete grife, Buf, oif. vi. p. 491. 



N° 5 . 



6. 



CINEREOUS 



B. 



'T'HIS is not bigger than a Lark : total length nine inches and 

 a quarter. The bill is an inch and a half long, and of a 

 bright green : the head is of an elegant grey : the upper parts of 

 the body are grey, variegated with red and yellow : the under 

 parts of a light yellow, fhaded with red : quills grey : the two 

 middle tail feathers, which are longer than the others, are red •, 

 the reft of them grey. 

 Said to inhabit Mexico. 



Description. 



Place. 



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