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fide of the head is a black band, arifing at the bafe of the bill,
and paffing through the eyes: the back, rump, fcapulars, and
upper tail coverts, are of a fine green : the throat yellow : the fore
part of the neck, bread:, belly, Tides, and thighs, yellowilh, (haded
with a little red : under tail coverts yellowilh, edged with light
green: under the wings deep green : the quills are of a deep green,
edged with a(h-colour; beneath entirely aih-colour : the tail feathers
of equal lengths; beneath alh-colour, above green; all but
the two middle ones are alh-colour on the inner margins : legs
alh-colour: claws blackilh.
P lace. Inhabits the Eaft Indies. Defcribed from a painting of M. he
Poivre.
i j . Le Guêpier rouge à tête bleue, Buf. oîf. vi. p. 506.
BLUE-HEADED Guêpier de Nubie, PI. enl. 649.
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I ^Description. ^t ^ H I S is fomewhat lefs than the common Bee-eater .*. the length
A ten inches. The bill an inch and three. quarters, and
black: the head and throat are of a blue green, deeped: on the
lad: : the rump and upper tail coverts of the fame colour : the
fore part of the neck, and beneath as far as the thighs, are crim-
fon, with a lhade of rufous : the back, wings, and tail, brick-colour,
inclining to brown on the wing coverts : three or four of the
quills neared the body are greenilh brown, with a tinge of blue ;
the greater quills tipped with blueilh grey, blended with red : the
fecondaries tipped with blackilh brown : the tail is fomewhat
forked, and four inches in length ; the eclges greenilh : the legs
are light alh-colour. *
Place. £ This inhabits Nubia, where it.was figured by Mr. Bruce.
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