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<)thers: four or five of the exterior ones orange- 

 yellow in the middle part, with white tips : tail 

 strongly cuneated, and tipped with white, except 

 on the two middle feathers : bill and legs black. 

 Native of New South Wales. 



BLACK-EAKED BEE-EATEE. 



Me^ops auritus. M. corpore supra rufo, subtus albido, striga pone 

 oculos remigibus rectricibusquc nigris. Lath, ind. orn, suppl. 



Rufous Bee-feater, whitish beneath, with black eye-stripe, wings 

 and tail. 



Black-eared Bee-Eater- Lath, syn, $uppL %, 



Length about seven inches : bill and legs brown: 

 colour of the upper parts pale rufous brown: quill- 

 feathers black: tail dusky: colour of the under parts 

 white, the abdomen and thighs spotted with black: 

 and behind each eye is a broad, black, pointed 

 streak. Native of New Holland. 



red-headed bee-eater. 



^erops erythrocephalus. M. viridis, sultus Jlavicans, capite rubra, 



fascia oculari nigra, gula lutea. 

 Green Bee-Eater, yellowish beneatii, with red h«ad, blacJk eye^ 

 - stripe, and yellow throat. 

 Apiaster Indicus erythrocephalus. Briss. ois. 

 Guepier a tete rouge. Biif, ois. 

 Red-headed Bee-Eater. Lath, si/n. 



A SMALL species, described by Brisson from a 

 drawing by Monsr. Poivre, Length six inches : 



