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inches longer. Bill one inch, curved, black ; crown of the head red, 

 changing to chestnut at the nape ; back and quills dark, blackish 

 green, the first marked with nineteen or twenty spots of white ; lesser 

 wing coverts pale green, the greater margined deeply with whitish ; 

 forming a bar on the wing; lower part of the back and rump pale 

 chestnut ; over the eye, from the nostrils, a pale yellow, broad streak, 

 and a second of black from the gape, passing under the eye, and 

 finishing on the ears, where it is broad and rounded ; in the middle 

 of this last part, a reddish brown spot; the chin, throat, and sides of 

 the neck pea-green ; on the upper part of the breast a spot of white ; 

 the rest of the under parts rufous red ; tail greatly forked, the two 

 middle feathers pale green, with four or five paler yellowish bars, 

 the others deep blackish green; the outer feathers for one inch, where 

 they begin to exceed the others in length, are broad, but growing 

 by degrees very narrow, finally curve outwards, with an enlarged 

 fringed end ; legs dusky. 



The other sex differs a little ; the head more varied, and blended, 

 instead of pea-green ; also the throat and chin ; these last parts 

 being rufous yellow ; the white on the lower part of the throat 

 wanting. 



The nest is not unlike that of the Philippine Grosbeak, and 

 hangs between the forks of the branches of trees. 



Supposed to inhabit the interior of India. 



33— BARRED-TAILED BEE-EATER. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill black, with a few hairs at the base, 

 and bent at the tip ; head, neck, under parts,and rump dull rufous 

 yellow, brighter on the crown ; from the nostrils a streak of bright 

 blue passes through the eye to the hindhead ; back and wings dusky 

 olive-brown; across the middle of the wing a bar of blue; on the 



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