334 BEEF-EATER. 



GENUS XI —BEEF-EATER. 



1. African Beef-Eater. || 2. Striped Beef-Eater. 



-O ILL strong, thick, strait, nearly square ; upper mandible a little 

 protuberant ; on the lower a large angle. 



Toes three before and one behind, the middle connected to the 

 outer one, as far as the first joint. 



1— AFRICAN BEEF-EATER— Pl. XXXV. 



Buphaga Africans, Ind.Orn.'u 147. Lin. i. 154. Gm. Lin. i. 362. Bor. Nat. ii. 100. 



Daud. ii. 295. pl. 22. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. p. lii. 

 Pic-bceuf, Bris. ii. 437. t. 42. 2. Id. 8vo.i. 279. Buf. iii. 175. pl. 14. Pl. enl. 293. 



Levail. Afr. ii: 198. pl. 97. 

 African Ox-pecker, Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 50. pl. 6. 

 Beef-eater, Gen. Syn.i. 359. pl. 12. Id. Sup. ii. 102. Nat. Misc. pl. 541. 



SIZE of a Song Thrush, but appears more slender ; length eight 

 inches and a half. Bill yellowish, towards the end red, in shape 

 nearly square, and about ten lines in length ; base of the under 

 mandible bare far backwards, hides red; plumage above greyish 

 brown ; rump, and all beneath dirty pale yellow ; tail three inches 

 and a half long,* cuneiform, composed of twelve feathers, all of 

 them pointed at the ends; the two middle ones grey-brown, the others 

 the same, but rufous on the inner margins, and tawny beneath ; the 

 wings, when closed, reach one-third on the tail ; legs and claws 

 brown. — The female is rather less, and the bill of a duller yellow. 



Inhabits Senegal, and parts within the Cape of Good Hope, in 

 the country of the Great Namaquas, near Canraria. Said to be very 



* In the Collection of the late Gen. Davies, one of these had the tail four inches long. 



