BEE-EATER. 



679 



Le Guefpier d'Angola, Brif. or»i iv. p. 558. N° 11. pi. 44. f. 1. 

 Le petit Guepier vert & bleu a queue etagee, Buf. oif. vi. p. 503. 



11. 



ANGOLA 

 B. 



'""THIS is five inches and a half long. The bill three quarters 

 of an inch in length, and black : the irides red : the upper 

 parts of the head, neck, body, and wings, are green, with a flight 

 glofs of gold : on each fide of the head is an alh-coloured {tripe, 

 dotted with black, beginning at the bafe of the bill, and palling 

 through the eye : the throat is yellow : fore part of the neck of 

 an elegant cheftnut : breaft, belly, fides, and thighs, greenilh blue, 

 with a flight gold tinge : under tail coverts greenilh, with a little 

 mixture of cheftnut : quills above green j within, and beneath, 

 cinereous : the tail beneath cinereous ; above green ; the fide 

 feathers margined within with cinereous 5 it is different in Ihape 

 from the other fpecies, for it is wedge-fhaped; each feather Ihorten- 

 ing as it is more outward, fo that the laft is very fhort : the legs 

 are afh-colour : claws black. 



Inhabits the kingdom of Angola, in Africa, from whence the 

 drawing was fent to Brijfon, by M. Le Poivre. This feems to have 

 fome affinity to the laft. 



Description,, 



Place. 



Guefpier a tete rouge des Indes, Brif. cm. iv. p. 563, N° 13. pi. 44. f. 3. A. 

 Le Guepier a tete rouge, Buf. oif. vi. p. 508. 



RED-HEADED 



^T^HIS is a trifle bigger than the laft; and the length fix inches. D ESCR i PT i rf„ 



The bill is fixteen lines long, and black : the irides red : the 



head, and upper parts of the neck, are of a very fine red : on each 



5 fide 



