/ 



BEE-EATER. 



in great efteem and veneration by the natives *. Said to fing ad- 

 mirably well f. 



683 



18. 



*. YELLOW- 

 TUFTED 

 B. 



Lev. Mu/". 

 CIZE of a Lark : length, from bill to tail, fourteen inches. Bill Description 



an inch and a half long, pretty much bent, and fharp at the 

 tip; the noftrils covered with a membrane: tongue divided into 

 threads at the end : the general colour of the plumage is glofly 

 black : the feathers about the head and throat fhort, and 

 pointed : beneath each wing is a large tuft of yellow feathers, 

 which do not appear when the wing is clofed : on the vent is an- 

 other patch of the fame colour : the tail is greatly cuneated ; the 

 two middle feathers are feven inches in length, and the outer ones 

 only two inches; both the outer feathers are white on the outer 

 webs and tips ; the others black; the ends are pointed: the legs 

 are black : the outer and middle toes connected to the firft joint. 



Thefe birds were met with in great plenty at O-why-hee, and Place. 



others of the Sandwich Ifles, by our late voyagers ; at which place 

 the natives catch the birds alive, and, after plucking out the yel- 

 low feathers, give them their liberty again, making ufe of the 

 feathers in forming the various ornaments and drefTes ; great va- 

 riety of the fpecimens of which are to be feen in the Levman 

 Mufemn. 



Le Fournier, Bxf. o:f. vi. p. 476. 



r$. 



■RUFOUS 



B. 



Fournier des Buenos Ayres, PL enl. 739-. 



>""]pHE length is eight inches and a half. The bill twelve Or Description. 

 thirteen lines : the plumage in general rufous ; deepeft on 

 f " Its note is fweet, and flefti delicious, and the greateft luxury the woods 



4 S -2 the- 



afforded us." Cook's Voy. i. p. 68. 



