SUPERB BEE-EATER. 



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are tipped with white, forming a slight bar of tbat 

 colour across the upper part of the wings : tail 

 rather long than short, and even at the end : bill 

 black : legs brown. Native, according to the 

 Planches Enluminees, of Cayenne. 



SUPERB BEE-EATER. 



Merops superbus. M. ruhevy fronte gula uropygioque cceruhis^ 

 rectricihus duabus intermediis hngionhus. Vivarium Naturce, 

 t. 78. 



Bed Bee-E'dter, with front, throat, and rump blue, and the two 

 middle tail-feathers longer than the rest. I^at. Misc. pi. 78. 



The size of this splendid bird is nearly tl at of 

 the Common or European Bee-Eater, and its co- 

 lour a fine ruby-red, with the front, tLroa?, and 

 rump blue, the tips of the secondary qu ill -fieat hers 

 dull green, and those of the larger or priniary oii^s 

 black : the two middle tail-feathers are producer] to 

 a very considerable extent beyond the rest, the 

 lengthened part being very narrow and of a black 

 colour : the bill is also black. 



y. VIII. p. I. 



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