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CAYENNE BEE-EATER. 



unlike that of a Woodpecker, and calculated for 

 piercing insects: the breast was reddish; theback, 

 wings and belly whitish, but the upper parts and 

 tips of the wings ferruginous : the upper part of 

 the back yellowish, but becoming reddish or ferru- 

 ginous at the rump : the tail-feathers were white 

 at the base, but ferruginous for the remainder of 

 their length, and the two middle feathers exceeded 

 the rest two palms in length. The wings, in Al- 

 drovandus's figure, appear very long in proportion 

 to the bird, and the author says they measured five 

 palms in length : the tail itself also, exclusive of 

 the two middle feathers, appears of considerable 

 length. 



CAYENNE BEE-EATER. 



Merops Cayanensis. M, viridis, alis caudaque rufiSf remigibus 



hasi albis. Lath, ind. orn. 

 Green Bee-Eater, with rufous wings and tail ; the base of the 



quill-feathers white. 

 Le Guepier vert a ailes et queue rousses. Buff, ois, PL Enl. 454. 

 Cayenne Bee-Eater. Lath, syn. 



Described by Buffon. Size of the Common 

 Bee-Eater, or rather smaller: colour pale subci- 

 nereous green, except the quill-feathers and tail, 

 which are bright ferruginous or red: the green 

 colour is paler beneath than above, and the throat- 

 feathers, according to the representation in the 

 Planches Enlumin6es, appear to have white shafts, 

 as in some of the Hollers : the smaller wing-coverts 



