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outer webs, and the tips greenish yellow: tail 

 rounded; of a pale greenish lead-colour, with a 

 dirty white tip : legs yellow-brown/* Native of 

 New Holland, 



BLUE-CHEEKED BEE-EATER. 



Merops cyanops. M.fuscus subtus albus, capite svpra gulaque 

 nigris, macula oculari cyanea. Lath, ind, orn. sitppL 



Brown Bee-Eater, white beneath, with black crown and throat, 

 and bhie eye-spot. 



Blue- cheeked Bee-Eater. Lath. syn. suppL 2. 



Length sixteen inches: colour brown above, 

 white beneath : crown of the head, back of the 

 neck, and throat black, but the eyes are surround- 

 ed by a naked ? blue patch : tail even : bill black ; 

 legs blue. Native of New Holland. 



CHATTERING BEE-EATER. 



Merops garrulus. M. fuscus subtus albus, fascia verficis nigra, 

 macula pone oculos remigibusque magna ex parte flavis. Lath, 

 ind. orn. suppl. 



Brown Bee-Eater, white beneath, with a black stripe on the 

 crown, a yellow eye-spot, and the greater part of the quill- 

 feathers yellow. 



Chattering Bee-Eater. Lath, ind. orn, suppl. 2, 



Size of a Thrush : body pale brown above, white 

 beneath ; the breast spotted and the thighs barred 

 with brown : wings black, but most of the larger 

 quill-feathers yellow with black tips: across the 

 top of the head a black bar, passing downwards 



