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YELLOWTHROATED
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D escription.
Le'Guépier marron & bleu du Sénégal, Buf. oif. vi. R, 494..
Guêpier à longue queue du Sénégal, PL n i. 314.
»THIS is a variety of the laft from climate: it is twelve inches
in length. The colours are the fame, only fomewhat different
in the diftribution : the cheftnut extending in this to the
wing coverts and quills, except thofe neareft the 'back; and to
all the tail feathers, except the part which exceeds the reft in
length, which is black.
This was brought from Senegal, by M. Adanfon.
Le grand Guêpier vert & bleu à gorge jaune, Bnf . oif. vi. p. 502.
length of this fpecies is ten inches. The bill twenty
lines : the forehead, the eyebrows, and all the under parts
of the body, are blue green : the throat is of a fine yellow, which
extends on the neck, under the eyes, and a little beyond,
where it is terminated by brown : the upper part of the head and
neck are bright golden red : all the upper parts of the body
green gold : upper tail coverts green : the two middle tail feathers
are longer than the others by feven or eight lines.
This, Buffon fays, is a new fpecies, for which he is indebted to
M. Sonnerat -, but does not mention its native country.
Le
Le Guefpier d’Angola, B rif on . iv. p. 538-. N° 11. pl. 44. f. 1. Ai
Le petit Guêpier vert & bleu à queue étagée, Buf. oif. vi. p. 503,
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ANGOLA
B.
r |"H IS is five inches and a half long. The bill three quarters d ESCRIPTion.
o f an inch in length, and black : the irides red : the upper
parts of the head, neck, body, and wings, are green, with a flight
glofs of gold : on each fide of the head is an afh-coloured ftripe,
dotted with black, beginning at the bafe of the bill, and paffing
through the e ye: the throat is yellow ; fore part of the neck o f
an elegant cheftnut: breaft, belly, fides, and thighs, greenifh blue,
with a flight,gold tinge : under tail coverts greenifh, with a little-
mixture of cheftnut: quills. above green j within, and beneath,
cinereous : the tail beneath cinereous; above green; the fide
feathers margined within with cinereous; it is: different in fhape-
from the other fpecies, for it is wedge-fhaped; each feather fhorten-
ing as it is more outward, fo that the laft is very fhort: the legs
are afh-colour : claws black.
Inhabits the kingdom of Angola, in Africa,. from whence the . Place,
drawing was fent to Briffon, by M. Le Poivre. This.feems to have
feme affinity to the laft..
Guefpier a tète rouge des Indes, Brif. or». iv. p. .363, N° 13. pi. 44. f. ,3. A,
Le Guêpier à tête rouge, Buf, oif, vi. p. 598.
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RED-HEADED
M
r 1 ’'IIIS is a trifle bigger than the laft; and the length fix inches.
The bill is fixteen lines long, and black : the irides red : the.
head, and upper parts of the neck, are of a. very fine red : on each:
5, fide-
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