132 BEE-EATER. 



chin pale yellow ; on the throat a triangular chestnut spot; the tail 

 feathers are dull green, with dark chestnut shafts, and the two 

 middle ones exceed the others by full two inches, ending in a point ; 

 legs ash-colour. 



Inhabits India; met with at Futtehghur, in June. — General 

 Hardwicke. Found also in the Island of Ceylon. Beneath a drawing 

 of one of these is a figure, said to be that of the egg, which is white, 

 and perfectly round, in diameter seven-eighths of an inch. 



In a specimen of this bird, in the collection of Lord Stanley, the 

 under wing coverts, and sides, beneath the wings, are pale rufous : 

 the same in one in the possession of Mr. Comyns. 



11.— JAVAN BEE-EATER. 



Merops Javanicus, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 171. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Plumage in general olive green, with 

 a gloss of copper; a line of black from the forehead to the ears ; the 

 frontal line margined with an obsolete sea-green band ; chin sulphur- 

 coloured ; throat chestnut ; vent and rump sea-green ; sides of the 

 vent whitish ; middle of the belly the same, but more dull ; sides 

 and axillae fulvous ; prime quills and secondaries with a black band 

 at the tips, 



Inhabits Java, there called Kachangan. This and the last 

 described are most probably the same, chiefly differing in being 

 larger, and measuring, in length, more by one inch and a half; and 

 both of them answering, in many respects, to the Variegated Species. 



