142 BEE-EATER. 



Two specimens of this beautiful species were shot near Adowa. 

 One in Mr. Bullock's possession answered in all things, but had a 

 streak of black through the eye. 



A. — Length eight inches and a half. Bill near one inch and a 

 half, and black ; plumage above fine green ; through the eye black ; 

 over the eye a fine blue streak ; chin orange yellow, beneath this a 

 fine deep blue band ; next to this tawny, growing paler by degrees 

 to the vent, which is very pale ; under wing coverts red buff; prime 

 quills dull green, the ends dusky ; secondaries greenish orange for 

 three-fourths of the length, then black for three quartes of an inch, 

 the ends bifid, and fringed with white ; scapulars plain green ; the 

 first quill half the length of the second ; tail even, three inches and 

 a half long, the two middle feathers green, the others tawny buff ; 

 the ends for one inch black, the tips fringed with white, the outer 

 web of the exterior green ; legs dusky. 



In the collection of Mr. Salt, and except in the shape of the tail, 

 seems very little to differ from the one described above, a circumstance 

 which would rather lead us to consider it as distinct. 



26 — PIRIK BEE-EATER. 



Merops Uvica, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 172. — Horsfield. 



LENGTH eight inches. Above glossy olive-green ; beneath and 

 rump the same, with a sea-green tinge ; crown, hind part of the 

 neck, and interscapulary feathers chestnut ; chin and throat sul- 

 phur-coloured ; a line of black on the temples, and a similar band 

 of the same on the b. east ; tail above dull sea-green, beneath dusky ; 

 tips of the quills black. 



