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the neck, and wing* coverts green ; the back mixed green, and 

 brownish orange ; lower part of it, and rump blue ; the middle part 

 of the wing has some series of green feathers, with fulvous margins, 

 and others wholly fulvous; quills green, with the inner margins 

 black ; the second quills edged with yellow ; the two middle tail 

 feathers continued to double the length of the others, as in several of 

 the Genus, the additional part very narrow, and furnished with very 

 slender webs, the colour of them blue ; the rest of the tail chestnut; 

 legs dusky. 



The female, or one supposed to be so, had the forehead, to the 

 middle of the crown, blue, the nape only being orange, which colour 

 also occupies the chin ; the black through the eye, the blue beneath, 

 and the patch on the throat, the same as in the other ; back brownish 

 green ; rump blue ; the two middle tail feathers as in the former, the 

 others black ; wing coverts like the back; the rest of the wing not 

 much differing from the other, but less brilliant. 



Inhabits New South Wales ; the first met with in the collection 

 of General Davies, the other among the drawings of Mr. Lambert. 

 Known in New-Holland by the name of Dee-weed-gang. Mr. Lewin 

 says, it inhabits mountains, and frequents the Hawkesbury River, 

 near that part, running under the mountains ; a few breed there every 

 summer ; appears in the greatest numbers the end of September, and 

 migrates about April. 



10— CHESTNUT-THROATED BEE-EATER. 



LENGTH nine inches and a half. Bill two inches long, black ; 

 general colour of the plumage gilded yellow green, but the lower 

 part of the back and second quills are dull green, and the wing 

 coverts spotted with the same ; through the eye, and beneath it, a 

 long streak of black, bounded above and below with pale blue ; the 



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