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B E E - E A T E R . 681
Le Guepier rouge & vert du Senegal, Buf. cif. vi. p. J07.
Petit Guepier du Senegal. PI. enl. 318,
^'J-'HE length of this fpecies is fix inches. The bill one inch,
and black : the upper parts of the head, body, wings, and
tail coverts, are green brown, deeped on the head and back,
lightelk on the rump and tail coverts: behind the eye is a fpot of
the fame, but of a very deep colour : the quills and tail are red,
tipped with black : the lad two inches in length : the throat yellow
: the under parts of the body dirty white : legs black.
■ This inhabits Senegal, from which place a well-preferved lkin
was brought by M. Adanfon.
Le Guêpier vert à ailes & queue roufles, Buf. oif. vi. p. 509.
Guêpier à queue & ailes rouffes de Gayenne, PI. enl. 454.
f I HE bill is black : the body - green, lighted: on the under
parts, but lighted of all on the throat: the wings and tail
are rufous; the feathers of the fird are white at their bafe; both
thefe and the tail feathers are black at the fides ; the lad even at
the end : the legs are yellowifii brown, and longer than is ufual in
this genus.
This in the PI. enl. was faid to come from Cayenne; but Buffon
does not credit it, believing the whole of this genus belong to the
old continent: but however this may be, I obferve in Fermin
Defer, de Surinam, two kinds of Bee-eaters mentioned, the one
great, the other.fmaller, as follow.:
4 S Le
14.
RED-WINGED
B.
Pl . XXXI.
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Place.
CAYENNE
B.
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