92 FORK-TAILED, BLUE- VENTED BEE-EATER. 
of the throat and breast by a collar of brilliant sky- 
blue ; front of the bead, light greenish blue ; ears 
and stripe through the eye, as usual in all the 
other species, deep black; beneath the ears is a 
whitish spot, blended with the blue and yellow of 
the throat, and there is also a whitish hand across 
the vent. Quill-feathers cinnamon colonr with broad 
black tips, the ends of the feathers deeply emar- 
ginate. Tail-feathers pointed, dark green, with 
blackish hands near the tips, which colour passes 
into bluish-white ; inner wing-covers and quills, 
cinnamon ; tail beneath, blackish. 
Total length, 8^ inches ; bill, from the gape, 1 j 4 3 ; 
wings, 3g ; tail beyond, 3 ; ditto from the base, 4b ; 
depth of the fork, 1J; tarsus, £ ; middle toe, /j. 
