ORNITHOLOGY. 



PLATE CXXXVII. ,i| 



MEROPS BULLOCKII i. 

 SCARLET-THROATED, or BULLOCK'S BEE-EATER 



PiCiE. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill curved, quadrangular, compressed," carmate^, pointed: 

 nOsti^ smaU, and at the base of the bill : tongue slender, the tip 

 generally jagged : feet gressorial. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Green, beneath yellowish fulvous: throat red, thighs and vent 

 blue. 



MeropS Bullockii : viridis subtus flavescenti-fulva : gula rubra : 

 femoribus crissoque cseruleis. 



The genus Merops, the Bee-eater of the English ornithologists, 

 is a tribe of very peculiar beauty; the family is by no means, 

 extensive : those at present known, amounting only to soniewhat 

 less than thirty species, exclusive of their respective varieties, but 



