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fide of the head is a black band, arifing at the bafe of the bill, 

 and paffing through the eyes : the back, rump, fcapulars, and 

 upper tail coverts, are of a fine green : the throat yellow : the fore 

 part of the neck, bread, belly, fides, and thighs, yellowifh, fhaded 

 with a little red : under tail coverts yellowifh, edged with light 

 green : under the wings deep green : the quills are of a deep green, 

 edged with afh-colour; beneath entirely afh-colour : the tail fea- 

 thers of equal lengths ; beneath afli-colour, above green; all but 

 the two middle ones are afh-colour on the inner margins : legs 

 afh-colour : "claws blackifh. 

 p LACE . Inhabits the Eajl Indies. Defcribed from a painting of M: Le 



Poivre. 



13. Le Guepier rouge a tete bleue, Buf. oif. vi. p. 506. 



BLUE-HEADED Guepier de Nubie, PL enl. 649. 



Description. at^HIS is fomewhat lefs than the common Bee-eater: the length 

 ten inches. The bill an inch and three quarters, and 

 black : the head and throat are of a blue green, deepeft on the 

 laft : the rump and upper tail coverts of the fame colour : the 

 fore part of the neck, and beneath as far as the thighs, are crim- 

 fon, with a fhade of rufous : the back, wings, and tail, brick-co- 

 lour, inclining to brown on the wing coverts : three or four of the 

 quills neareft the body are greenifh brown, with a tinge of blue ; 

 the greater quills tipped with blueifh grey, blended with red : the 

 fecondaries tipped with blackifh brown : the tail is fomewhat 

 forked, and four inches in length; the edges greenifh : the legs 

 are light afh-colour. 

 Plage, This inhabits Nubia, where it was figured by Mr. Bruce. 



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