BEE-EATER. 149 



The nest is in shape of a deep purse, round at the bottom, and 

 suspended on a mimosa, chiefly by one point, elsewhere slightly, 

 composed of fine fibres, and has a large oval opening on one side. 



The above three species I found among the drawings of the late 

 Sir J. Anstruther, Bart, and were supposed to inhabit the internal 

 parts of India ; but as no history was annexed, or name given to 

 them, and the drawings came into his hands unauthenticated, nothing- 

 further can be conjectured concerning them ; but we may suspect 

 that the birds do exist, and probably at Surinagur, especially as the 

 drawings of them were done in the same style as the others, which 

 were ascertained to inhabit that part of India. 



35— CAYENNE BEE-EATER. 



Merops Cayanensis, Ind. Orn. i. 274. Gm. Lin.\. 464. 

 Guepier vert & ailes et Queue rousses, Biif. vi. 509. PL enl. 454. 

 Cayenne Bee-eater, Gen. Syn.u. 681. Shaw's Zool. viii. 160. 



BILL black and stout ; plumage, in general, light brownish green ; 

 much paler on the throat, the feathers being mixed with white ; quills 

 and tail rufous, the feathers of the former white at the base, sides of 

 both black ; the tail long and even at the end; legs yellowish brown, 

 and longer than usual in this Genus. 



Inhabits Cayenne, but Buffbn does not seem to credit it, as he 

 believes the whole of the Genus to belong to the Old Continent. Be 

 this as it may, I observe in Fermin's description of Surinam, two 

 kinds of Bee-Eaters, or, at least, what he supposed to be such. 



