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The Brafilian Jaguacati guacu, Marggrav. akin to the Kingfijhr. 



IT is by the Portugues called Papa peixe^ becaufe it lives upon fi(h. It is equal iri 

 bignefs to a Throjile or Mavis : For the figure of its. body like to the greater • ' 

 Woodpte. It hath a black, (height, and (harp-pointed Bill, almoil three inches long: 

 Black Eyes, and very (hort black Legs: The upper Legs are in part bare of feathers. 

 The Feet have four toes ( one (landing backward ) of unequal length : For the two 

 outer are (hort and contiguous, but the third or inner is much the (horter, and more 

 remote. The Claws are black. The Tail is two inches long, reaching further than 

 the ends of the Wings. The fuperiour feathers of the whole body, -viz. the Head, 

 Neck, Wings, and Tail, are of a rufty, but (hining, colour. About the Neck it hath 

 a ring of pure white feathers. The Throat, underfide of the Neck, Breaft, and Bel- 

 ly are alio cloathe^vvith white feathers. Near both the Eyes it hath alfoafpot of 

 white. In the Tail fome of the feathers are fpr inkled with white (pots, which yet are 

 icarce Teen, unlefs when they fpread their Wings and fly. 



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The Bee-eater ', Meropslive Apiafter. 



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FOr the (hape of the body it is like the Kingfifier, for bignefs equal to a Blackbird: 

 From the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail eleven inches and an half long , 

 the Wings, being fpread, eighteen inches broad. 



The Bill is great, from the tip to the Angles of the Mouth almoft two inches long, 

 black, and for the proportion of the body very like that of a Kingfifier, fave only 

 that it is a little more arcuate or bending downward : The Tongue (lender, deeply 

 cut in or torn at the tip : The * hides of the Eyes of a lovely red, and in fome of a * circles .& 

 hazel colour. iHSjf 



The Head is great and oblong. The colour of the feathers at the Bafe of the upper 

 Chap is a greeniih blue, but in the middle between the Nofthrils white. The crown 

 of the Head red, but in fome birds having fomething of green mixt. From the cor- 

 ners of the mouth through the Eyes on each fide is extended a black ftroak 5 conti- 

 guous whereto under the Chin are bright, but pale yellow feathers. The Neck and 

 Shoulders are green, with a certain mixture of red. The whole Belly and Breaft, as 

 far as the Chin, are blue, this colour is deeper near the Chin, fainter on the Bread: 

 and Belly. In fome the colour of the underfide inclines more to green; Perchance 

 thefe are Cocks. 



The number of beam-feathers in each Wing is about twenty one or twenty two 3 

 decreafing by degrees to the tenth. All to the twentieth have black tips. Thefirft 

 or outmoft ten beneath the black are of a bluilh green : The next nine beneath the' 

 black are of a lovely Orange colour s as are alfo the lefTer rows next to them : Thofe 

 above near the ridge of the Wing are blue. The long feathers fpringing from the 

 fhouldersare of a pale yellow. 



The Tail is near an hand-breadth long;, made up of twelve feathers, of a blue co- 

 lour, theexteriour Webs having fomething of green intermixt : The underfide of the 

 Tail was of a dun colour. The two middle feathers run out in length beyond thereftj 

 an d end in (harp points. 



The Legs are very (hort, but thick for the length : Both Legs and Feet exadly like 

 thofe of the King-fiJJjer. For the fore-toes, as in that, are all joyned together to the 

 firft Joynt, as if they were but one toe, the outmoft and middle to the fecond or 

 third. The Claws are black, the Feet and Toes of a dusky red. 



The Liver was of a pale yellow : The Stomach rather membranous than mufculous, 

 in that we diiTe&ed filled with Beetles and other Infe&s. The. colours of the Wings 

 varied in feveral birds, in fome was more blue, in fome more green, in fome more red 3 

 and in fome Iefs. 



It is ftrange that Aldrovandm fhould not take any notice of, or not mention at lead 

 the connexion of the Toes in this Bird. 



It is not unfrequent in the Campagn of Rome: For that we faw it there to be 

 fold in the Market more than once, It is not found in England that we know o£ 



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