BEE-EATER. 



682 



Le Guepier rouge & vert du Senegal, Buf. oif. vi. p. 507. 

 Petit Guepier du Senegal. PI. enl. 318. 



^T^HE length of this fpecies is fix inches. The bill one inchj 

 ■"* and black : the upper parts of the head, body, wings, and 

 tail coverts, are green brown, deepeft on the head and back, 

 lighten; on the rump and tail coverts : behind the eye is a fpot of 

 the fame, but of a very deep colour : the quills and tail are red, 

 tipped with black : the laft two inches in length : the throat yel- 

 low : the under parts of the body dirty white : legs black. 



This inhabits Senegal, from which place a well-preferved fkin 

 was brought by M. Adanfon, 



14. 



RED-WINGED 



B. 



Pl. XXXI. 



Description. 



Place, 



Le Guepier vert a ailes & queue roufles, Buf. oif. vi. p. 509. 

 Guepier a. queue & ailes roufies de Cayenne, PL enl. 454. 



HP HE bill is black: the body green, lighteft on the under 

 parts, but lighteft of all on the throat : the wings and tail 

 are rufous j the feathers of the firft are white at their bafe ; both 

 thefe and the tail feathers are black at the fides ; the laft even at 

 the end : the legs are yellowifti brown, and longer than is ufual in 

 this genus. 



This in the PI. enl. was faid to come from Cayenne ; but Buffon 

 does not credit it, believing the whole of this genus belong to the 

 old continent : but however this may be, I obferve in Fermin 

 Defer, de Surinam, two kinds of Bee-eaters mentioned, the one 

 great, the other fmaller, as follow : 



CAYENNE 

 B. 



Description. 



4 S 



Le 



