:Placs. 



£92 HOOPOE. 



The bill is an inch and eight lines long, and blackifh j but the 

 fides are yellowifh : the head, throat, neck, back, and rump, are 

 idull grey, glofled with fea-green and purplifli red in different 

 lights : belly, fides, thighs, and under tail coverts, light yellow : 

 above each eye is a fpot of the fame : the greater quills are light 

 blue ; but the lefier the fame colour as the back : the tail is 

 blackifh grey, but in fome lights has a glofs of deep green and 

 purple ; four of the middle ones are much longer than the 

 others. 



It is faid to inhabit Mexico, and to frequent high mountainous 

 places, where it feeds on caterpillars, flies, beetles, and other infelis. 

 'Buffon feems to fufpect the fad of this being a native of South 

 America. 



45. TJpupa Promerops, Lin. Syji. i. p. 1^4. N° 2. 



**" p^ PE Meropscafer, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 183. N° 7. 



Le Promerops, Brif. orn. ii. p. 461. N° I. t. 43. f. 2. 

 Le Promerops brun a ventre tachete, Buf. oif. vi. p. 469. 

 Le Guepier gris d'Ethiopie, Buf. oif. vi. p. 492. 

 Promerops du Cap de Bonne Efperance, PL enl. 637. 



Merops fufcus, Ani regione flavl, &c. N, C. Ac. Sc. Petr. xi. p. 429. 1. 14. 

 f. 1. 



Lev. Muf. 



Dbscription. 'TpHE length of this fpecies is feventeen inches: the body 

 about the fize of a Lark. The bill is an inch and five lines 

 long, and black : the upper parts of the head, neck, back, wing 

 coverts, and fcapulars, are brown : rump and upper tail coverts 

 olive green ; but under the tail of a fine yellow : the throat is 

 white, with a narrow longitudinal brown band on each fide : the 



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