228 BEE-EATER. 



One of these had the two middle tail feathers longer than the 

 others, which probably was a male, or more approaching to an 

 adult state. 



B.— Merops Persica, Pall. It. ii. 708. t. D. Ind. Orn. i. 271. 4. y. 



In this the forehead is blue ; from the bill a black streak through 

 the eye; beneath the neck a large space of a rufous red colour. 



This is about eleven inches in length, and inhabits the banks of 

 the Caspian Sea, making the nest in the crags thereabouts, and is a 

 migratory species. 



C. — Length ten inches and a half. Bill one inch and a quarter, 

 stout, and black ; crown of the head black ; forehead white, con- 

 tinuing over the eye in a broad streak, to the hindhead ; from the 

 gape a streak of black, passing through the eye ; chin and throat 

 white; above the throat a triangular patch of black; general colour 

 of the rest of the plumage pale dull green, much paler beneath ; the 

 nape inclining to chestnut; the lower part of the black, on the 

 breast, bounded with pale blue ; the wing coverts incline to brown, 

 also the lesser quills; the greater outwardly margined with dusky; 

 tail rounded at the end, two inches long, greenish, but the two 

 middle feathers of double the length, narrow, and end in a point; 

 the parts exceeding are black ; legs dusky, pale ; lower belly and 

 vent pale grey. 



Inhabits Senegal. — General Davies. In the collection of Mr. 

 Brogden. 



