WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
and fometimes a ftone hatchet ; make up the catalogue 
of their military implements. 
We this day fhot a Ki7ob'fronted Bee-eater ; (See plate 
annexed). This is about the fize of a blackbird; the 
plumage moftly brown above and white beneath; the 
head and upper part of the neck are fparingly covered 
with narrow feathers, almoft like hairs; but the fore part 
of the neck and breaft are furnifhed with long ones, of a 
white colour and pointed at the ends; the tail is pretty 
long, and the feathers tipped with white ; the bill is 
about one inch in length, and pale; but what is moft 
remarkable, on the forehead, juft at the bafe of the bill, 
is a fhort blunt knob, about a quarter of an inch ia 
length, and of a brownifh colour; the tongue is nearly 
of the length of the bill, and briftly at the end ; the 
legs are brown. This inhabits New South Wules^ and 
is fuppofed to be a non-defcript fpecies. 
This day three canoes, with a man and woman in each, 
xame behind the point on which the hofpital is built, to filh- 
I went over to them, as did two other gentlemen, my 
afliftants, without their fhewing any fear at our coming; 
on the contrary, they manifefted a friendly confidence. 
We 
