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WATTLED BEE-EATER. 



Merops caruneulatus. M. fuscus, ahdomine Jlavo, palearibns 

 carunculatisj cauda cuneiformi apice alba. Lath, ind, qrn. 



Brown Bee-Eater, with yellow abdomen, with reddish wattles 

 beneath the bill, and cuneated tail with white tip, 



New-Holland Bee-Eater. PMIL Bot, Bay, pi. l64. Lath, 

 ind, orn, 



Corvus paradoxus ? Daudin, om» 



Size of a Missel Thrush, but much longer in 

 proportion, measuring about fourteen inches : the 

 feathers on the upper part of the head are some- 

 what longer than the rest, giving the appearance 

 of a slight crest : the plumage of the bird is brown, 

 the feathers long and pointed, and each feather has 

 a white longitudinal middle streak : beneath the 

 eye on each side the head, beyond the base of the 

 lower mandible, is a lengthened pendent wattle of 

 an orange-colour : the middle of the belly is yellow: 

 the tail wedge-shaped, like that of a Magpie, and 

 the feathers tipped with white : the bill and legs 

 are brown. In some individuals a silvery streak 

 appears beyond each side of the bill, and in the 

 young birds the white streaks on the plumage ter- 

 minate in a kind of dilated spot at the tip of each 

 feather. Native of New Holland; described and 

 figured in White's Voyage to New South Wales. 

 There can be little doubt that the Cor oiis paradoxus 

 of Monsr. Daudin, already described under that 

 ^enus, is in reality the same bird with the present 



