BEE-EATER. ]43 



Inhabits Java ; known there by the name of Pirik. — In Mr. 

 Bullock's Museum is one similar, but rather less in size ; bill one 

 inch and a half long, rather stout, and bent; head flat above; 

 plumage on the upper parts of the body olive green, beneath ash- 

 colour, streaked with brown ; tail short, rounded at the end, where 

 the feathers are pale ; legs stout, brown. 



Said to have been brought from Java, and most probably 

 related to the former, if not differing in sex. From the corresponding 

 similarity in many points, of several of the Bee-eaters reported as 

 distinct, it will most probably be hereafter found, that they are more 

 nearly allied than at first imagined, and that the difference may arise, 

 from the periods of growth of the birds, as well as sex. 



27— OLIVACEOUS BEE-EATER. 



Le Promerops olivatre, Ois: dor. i. (Promer.) p. 14. pi. 5. 

 Olivaceous Bee-Eater, Shaw's Zool. viii. 180. 



SIZE of the Cape Promerops ; length seven inches. Bill ten 

 lines long, black brown ; plumage of the head, and upper parts 

 inclined to olive, beneath the same, but paler, with a yellowish tinge, 

 growing white towards the vent ; from the gape arise two yellow 

 marks, which pass beneath the eye, and a little beyond it ; tail even 

 at the end, consisting of twelve brown feathers, edged with olive- 

 yellow ; quills the same ; legs grey. 



Inhabits one of the Islands of the South Seas ; met with there by 

 La Peyrouse ; and considered as a new species. 



