EMBROIDERED BEE-EATER. 16*? 



with a sort of down : the nape at the back part is 

 elongated with a kind of bristlj tuft : the hind parts 

 of the neck and back are brown ^ the first mottled 

 with a paler colour : the under parts white, marked 

 on the chin and throat with dusky sagittal streaks : 

 quills and tail brown ; legs dusky blue.'* Native 

 of New Holland. 



EMBROIDERED BEE-EATER. 



Merops phrygius. Merops niger Jiavo varius, Zool, New HolL 

 pL4. ' - 



Black Bee-Eater variegated with yellow. 

 Black and yellow Bee-Eater. LatL syn. suppl 2. 



This beautiful species I have long ago described 

 in the work entitled Zoology of New Holland. Its 

 size is that of a Thrush, and its colour black, most 

 elegantly variegated with bright and pale yellow: 

 the sides of the head, round the eyes, are covered 

 by a naked, yellow, granulated skin : the back and 

 breast undulated by numerous pale or whitish yel- 

 low crescents, the tips of the black feathers being 

 of that colour: the smaller wing-coverts are marked 

 in a similar manner ; the larger tipped with bright 

 yellow, and the quill-feathers edged with the same 

 colour, as are also the exterior tail-feathers : the 

 bill is black, of a very moderate length, and shai-p- 

 pointed : the legs brown. Native of New Holland. 



