140 BEE-EATER. 



inclining' to brown on the wing coverts; three or four of the quills, 

 nearest the body, greenish brown, tinged blue ; greater quills tipped 

 with bluish grey, blended with red, ending in blackish brown, the 

 tips of the scapulars greenish ; tail somewhat forked, four inches 

 long, dull brick-colour, greenish at the end ; the two middle feathers 

 exceed the rest by three inches, the elongated parts greenish black ; 

 the quills reach three-fourths on the tail ; legs pale ash-colour. 



Inhabits Nubia ; taken from Mr. Bruce's drawings. — That in 

 the PI. enlum. has no elongated feathers, and is probably a female. 



23 —SUPERB BEE-EATER. 



Merops superbus, Lid. Orn. Sup. xxxiii. Nat. Misc. t. 78. 

 Superb Bee-Eater, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 152. Shaw's Zoo/, viii. 161. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill black ; general colour of the 

 plumage red; the forehead, round the eye, throat, and rump blue ; 

 the two middle tail feathers are longer than the rest, and the parts 

 so exceeding are black. 



This is in the British Museum, but from whence unknown ; it 

 has many things in common with the last described, but differs 

 materially in the shape of the tail. — One of these, in the collection 

 of Mr. Francillon, had a streak of black through the eye. 



24.— RED-WINGED BEE-EATER.~Pl. lxx. 



Merops eiythropterus, Ind. Orn. i. 274. Gm. Lin. i. 464. 

 Guepier rouge et vert du Senegal, Buf. vi. 507. PL enl. 318. 



Red-winged Bee-Eater, Gen. Syn. ii. 681. pi. 31. Id. Sup. ii. 149. Share's Zool. 

 viii. 175. 



LENGTH near seven inches. Bill black; plumage on the 

 upper parts, wing coverts, scapulars, and two middle tail feathers, 



