RED-THROAMiy BEE-EATER. 177 



lour above green, accompanied by a slight gilded 

 gloss : throat yellow : forepart of the neck chesnut^ 

 Remainder of the under parts blue : tail strongly 

 cuneated : across the eyes a mixed black and grey 

 stripe : bill black $ legs ash-colour. Native of An* 

 gola. 



RE0-THROATEI> BEE-EATER. 



Merops gularis. M, nigery fronte uropygioquc coeruleis, abdomlnc 

 coeruleo maculafo, gula rubra, Vivar, Nat. vol, Q. t. 337. 



Black Bee-Eater, with the forehead and rump blue, the abdomen 

 spotted with blue j the throat red* Nat, Mine, vol, g. pi, 337. 



This beautiful species I have before described in 

 the Naturalist's Miscellany. Its size is rather 

 smaller than that of the Common Bee-Eater, and 

 its prevailing colour the finest velvet-black: the 

 forehead is of the richest blue, passing a little 

 above and beyond the eyes on each side : the rump 

 is also blue, rivalling that of the Kingfisher : the 

 scapulars and two middle tail-feathers are edged, 

 and the abdomen clouded or mottled with the same 

 colour : the throat is of a bright blood-red, the 

 larger wing-coverts and middle quill-feathers bor- 

 dered with bright ferruginous : the tail is even at 

 the end ; the bill and legs black. Native of Sierra 

 Leona in Africa. 



V. VIII. p. I» 



