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APPENDIX. 
WATTLED BEE-EATER, or MEROPS, Female. 
The female Bea-eater is ftouter in the body and in the 
legs, more brilliant in the plumage, the bill more curved ; 
and the tail cuneated and tipped with white ; but fhorter 
than in the male. The feathers on the head are fmall, each 
tipped with white, and fomewhat ereded : it has no wattles, 
but on the chin the feathers are dark, long, and hang dif- 
fufely. 
The general colour of the bird is a blackifli chocolate, 
lighter on the breaft, and towards the vent ; darker on the 
abdomen and towards the tip of the tail. The feathers on 
the neck and breaft have each a ftreak of white through the 
middle. On the wing the outer long feathers are flightly 
edged with whitifli, thofe of the middle region round-ended 
and tipped only; and on the upper part of the wing each 
feather bears a ftreakd own the middle, fuddenly dilating at 
the tip. 
The legs yellower than thofe qf the male ; claws blackifh. 
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