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much like the back, with a greenish blue streak down the shaft of 

 each feather; rump, and upper tail coverts verditer-blue; vent, and 

 behind the thighs, much the same ; quills dusky, with red shafts; 

 insides of the scapulars rufous ; tail two inches and a quarter long, 

 rounded, the feathers dusky, edged with bine green ; legs short, 

 black, claws moderately hooked. 



In the collection of General Davies, said to have come from 

 South America, but T suspect this to have been a mistake, and that 

 it is a native of Africa, as well as the former. 



B. — This is scarcely six inches long. Bill seven-eighths of an inch, 

 dusky; general colour of the plumage black; from the forehead, 

 over the eye, a faint blue streak ; sides of the chin marked with a 

 narrow red, or crimson streak, three quarters of an inch in length ; 

 rump pale blue ; belly spotted irregularly with the same ; thighs 

 and vent blue ; on the wings a patch of red, from the base of some 

 of the quills being of that colour ; tail short, little more than one 

 inch in length ; the wings reach only to the rump ; legs pale grey. 



From the drawings of Mr. Woodford. — The distribution of 

 colours is certainly much the same as in the Red^throated, but it 

 differs in many things; the bill little more than half the length, and 

 the tail in the same proportion ; nor do either the blue or red colours 

 occupy so much space as in the last named. I find no history annexed 

 to the representation, but we may conjecture it to be a young bird of 

 the Red-throated Species. 



1 9.— SCARLET-THROATED BEE-EATER 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill one inch and a half; formed as in 

 others of the Genus, and black ; nostrils pervious ; crown of the 

 head blue green ; through the eye a black streak, growing broader, 



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