THE 
MALIMBIC BEE-EATER. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Beak curvated, compressed, carinated. 
Tongue laciniated at the tip. 
Feet gressorial. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, fsfe. 
Cinereo-violaceous BEE-EATER, sanguine- 
rose-coloured beneath, with black eye-? 
stripe, and white throat. 
Guepier bicolor. 
Daud. Ann, Mus. Hist. Nat. No. 12. 
p. 440. pi. 42. f. 1. 
The Malimbic Bee-Eater is a native of the interior 
parts of Africa, and is of the size of the Merops Api- 
aster of Linnteus, or common Bee-Eater. It seems to 
have been first described by Monsieur Daudin, in the 
Annales du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 
