HOOPOE, 



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Xe Promerops des Barbades, Brif. orn. ii. p. 466. N° 4. 



■ orange, Buf. eif. vi. p. 474. 

 Avis Paradifiaca, Americana, elegantiffima, Seba, i. p. 102. t. 66. f. 5. 



HPHIS is the fize of a Starling : length nine inches and a half. 

 The bill is thirteen lines long, very pointed, and of a gold 

 colour : the bafe of the bill is furrounded with a few red feathers : 

 the head and neck gold-colour : the reft of the body orange 

 yellow : the greater quills are reddifh orange ; the leffer ones of 

 the fame colour as the body : the tail is three inches and three 

 quarters long, the feathers all equal in length, and of the fame 

 colour as the greater quills : the legs yellow. 



This is faid, by Brijpm, to come from Barbados*. 



Le Promerops jaime du Mexique, Brif. orn. ii. p. 467. N°5. 

 Le Promerops orange (the female) , Buf. cif. vi. p. 474. 

 CochitolotI, Rail Syn. p. 168. — Fernar.d. Hift. N. Uifp. ch. 161. 



'T'HIS is of the fame fize with the laft. The bill is black : the 

 irides pale yellow : the head, throat, neck, and wings, are 

 covered with an irregular mixture of cinereous and black : the 

 reft of the bird is yellow : the legs are afh-colour : and the claws 

 black. 



This inhabits the hotter parts of Mexico, where it feeds on fmall 

 worms and feeds. . 



Buffon, with great probability, fuppofes this to be the female of 

 the other. 



* This bird, Buffon fays, is found in the northern parts of Guiana, in the fmall 

 iflands fituated in ihe mouth of the river Berlice ; and it feems manifefl that Seba 

 meant this very fpot, fince his words are, " in Infulis Berbicenfibtts," which clearly 

 means Berbke, rather than Barbadoes. 



4 U Genus 



8. 



ORANGE 

 PR. 



Description-, 

 Ma-le. 



Place. 



Var. A. 



YELLOW 



PR. 



Description. 

 Female. 



Place. 



