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Gfacula atthis, Lin* Syjf. i. p. 165.: N® &•
Corvus iEgyptius, HaJJelq* Itin, p. 240. N° 20.'
C lZ E of a Lark: length four inches. Bill dull hlack, with the
^ bafe reddifh : the eye is blueilh : thé head is flattilh at top :
.the plumage on. the upper part of the body of a deep green,
fpotted with blue green on the crown, hind part of the neck, and
lhoulders: Tides of the neck and back the fame, but not fpotted :
on each .fide of the neck is a longitudinal broad line, the fore part
of which is ferruginous, the reft of a whitilh lucid blue , the
throat is whitilh: the belly ferruginous: the prime quills deep,
green on the outfide, andblackilh within; the tips the fame, the
tail is nearly even at the end, and of a deep blue : the lègs. blood,
red : claws blackifh.
This inhabits Egypt, and is fuppofed to live on infefts, cen-
tipes, and' fcorpions; the remains of which were found- in the
ftomach.
Graculalongiroftra, Fallas Spic. vi. p. 6. t. 2. f: 2.
THIS is lefs than the Bee-eater: the lengthnearly nine inches.
The bill is thirteen lines long, and a little bent: hides
dufky : the noftrils placed in an hollow, almoft in the middle of
the bill *, and covered with a black, fmooth membrane : above
the angles of the mouth are two black briftles, and a leffer ferruginous
one behind them :- tongue plain, deeply bifid at the end,
« Differing in this from other GracuU, in which they are placed at the bafe-
(as
..(as are thofe of all the Grakle genus *) with lacerated edges : the
head and neck are black: the back brown, inclining to ferruginous
near the rump: beneath, from the throat to the vent, the plumage
is of a dirty yellow: the fides under the wings undulated with
black lines : on each fide of the neck is a naked wrinkled band,
palling lengthwife on-the neck, and almoft covered by the adjacent
feathers: the wings are of a foot-colour, inclining more to
brown towards the lhoulders : all the prime quills, and part of
the Ihafts, are white at the bafe, making, when the wing is doled,
an oblique bar of White; but there is no white on the fecondaries:
the tail is cuneiform, black, tipped obliquely with white at the end,
having moft white on the outer feather, which is black for only
one-third of its length from the bafe : its legs are long, robuft,
and black.
Inhabits South America and Surinam. We are indebted for the
whole of this account to Pallas, who feems to have been the only
one who has feen the bird; and which I place here on his
authority.
Place,
LeTicucule de Cayenne, Buf. oif. vii. p. 9 2.— PI. ml. 621,
T EN G TH ten inches. From the gape to the point of the bill
nearly one inch and three quarters : the bill itfelf pretty ftout,
llightly bent the ' whole length, and fomewhat curved at the
point ; colour black ; noftrils final), clofe to the bafe : the head
and throat are fpotted, rufous and white : the upper part of the
* Not in Linnteus ; whofe definition is, Lingua intégrât acutiufcula canto/a ;
perhaps this therefore is not a Linnxan Gracula.
3 O 2 body
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