INDIAN BEE-EATER. 
i>tteme tips being orange ; the interior quills 
,L»ext the back are wholly green ; and the first 
row of coverts above the quills is orange in 
the centre, and green on the edges* The tail 
is green, but the shafts of the feathers are 
brown ; and the two centre feathers, which 
proje61: more than two inches beyond the rest, 
are brown at their tips, and very narrow, be- 
ing little more than the naked shafts. The 
under-side of the tail is of a dusky green. 
The legs are short ; the three forward toes are 
partly connected together ; and the claws are 
strong. The legs and feet are of a dusky 
brown colour. 
In the subje6t described by Brisson, under the 
name of Apiaster Madagascariensis Torqua- 
tus, which is also delineated in the Planches 
Enluminees, there was no blue on the front, 
and the green on the under side of the body 
partook of the beryl cast ; the upper side of 
the head, and of the neck, was of the same 
gold green as the back ; there was, in general, 
a tint of gold yellow thrown loosely on the 
whole of the plumage, except on tlie quills of 
the wings and the superior coverts of the tail ; 
and the black bar did not extend across the 
eyes. 
