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2. Indian B e e - e a t e r , Gen. Syn. ii. p. 670. N° 2 ,
V a r . D.
INDIAN B. E. T F IN D this bird fubjeft to great variety. One among the
drawings of Lady lmpey has a yellow forehead and a deep blue
throat; the reft as in the Indian fpecies. Thefe are not uncommon
in India, where they are often feen flying to and fro, and
feem fond o f plant anes.
In the Britifi Mujeum is alfo a bird not greatly differing: the
general colour of the plumage pale green ; the under parts light-
eft : forehead inclining to orange : chin and throat black, mottled
on each fide o f the under jaw with an obfcure trace o f blue :
tail even at the end. This, perhaps, may be a young bird o f the
Indian Bee-eater, which is often feen in vaft flocks in India j arriving
the beginning o f autumn.
jg^ Moho, EUis Narr. ii. p. 156.
YELLOW- . r 1 1
TUFTED B. E. T Believe the bird mentioned in Ellis's Narrative*, o f the long
tail fearhers o f which the natives o f Sandwich IJlands make fly-
flaps, to be this very fpecies. He obferves, that the name o f the
bird is Moho; and that the handle is not unfrequently made of an
arm or leg bone o f one o f their enemies (lain in battle.
Le Guêpier jaune de la Côte de Coromandel, Son. Voy. but. ii. p. 213.
COROMANDEL pl. 119.
B. E.
D i s c r e t i o n . T> I L L black: irides pale rufous: head and hind part of the
neck pale yellow : from the bill through the eye a ftreak of
• Vol. ii. p. 156.— Cook's LaJIFoy. iii. p. 120.
black,
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black, finilhing behind i t : throat pale green: fore part o f the
neck, breaft, and belly, greenifh yellow : fides o f the neck deep
yellow, undulated with greenilh blue: quills and tail deep yellow j
all but the two middle feathers of the laft tipped with b la ck :
legs black.
Inhabits the coaft o f Coromandel.
SuPPL. R G s s o s
P l a c s .