108 HOOPOE. 



belong to the vent, and under tail coverts, and the long pointed 

 particoloured ones hang five on each side of the tail. The glossy 

 feathers of the belly appear green, or blue, in different reflections of 

 light. This is all the amendment of what was already known, con- 

 cerning the bird ; but it is to be hoped, that some future draughtman 

 maybe so fortunate as to obtain the sight of one alive, or newly killed, 

 the only means of obtaining a just idea of the plumage of so curious 

 a bird. M. Temminck considers this and the New Guinea one to be 

 male and female. 



8— ORANGE PROMEROPS. 



Upupa aurantia, Ind. Orn. i. 279. Gm. Lin. i. 468, 

 Promerops Barbadensis, Bris. ii. 466. Id. 8vo. i. 287. 

 Promerops orange, Btif. vi. 474. Male. 



Avis paradisiaca, Americana, elegantissima, Seba,\. 102. t. 66. 3. 

 Orange Promerops, Gen. Syn. ii. 697-8. Shaw's Zool. viii. 149. 



SIZE of a Starling ; length nine inches and a half. Bill thirteen 

 lines long, very pointed, and of a gold colour; round the base a 

 few reddish feathers ; head and neck gold-colour ; the rest of the 

 body orange yellow ; the greater quills, reddish orange ; the lesser 

 orange yellow ; the tail three inches and three-quarters long, the 

 feathers of equal lengths, and of the same colour as the quills ; legs 

 yellow. 



Inhabits Berbice.* 



* Brisson supposes this to be Barbadoes, but Seba's words are " Accepimusavem hsnc ex 

 Insulis Barbicensibus," which most probably means Berbice. 



