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fittning^ that plates of them, done from corre6t drawings; would:
be no fmall embellilhment to this work, I have therefore given
the figures of four of the mod curious, and with Mr. Latham’s
permiffion have annexed their defcriptions, as printed in his Sy-
nopfis of Birds;
Y E L LOW TU F T ED BEE-EATER.
Latham's Synopfis, vol. ii. p .'683. No. 18.
* Size of a laik : length from bill to tail fourteen inches. Bill
an inch and an-half long,, pretty much bent, and fharp at the
tip ; the noftrils covered with a membrane : tongue divided into
threads at the end : the general colour of the plumage is glofiy.
black : the feathers about the head and throat Ihort and pointed r
beneath each wing is a large tuft of yellow feathers, which do
not appear when the wing is clofed : on the vent is another patch
of the fame colour : the tail is greatly cuneated; the two middle
feathers are feven inches in length, and the outer ones' only two
inchesy both the outer feathers are white on the outer webs and
tips, the others black ; the ends are pointed : tire legs are black ~
the outer and middle toes connected to the find joint.,
Thefe bii ds are met with in plenty at O-why free, and others" of
the Sandwich IJles; at which place the natives catch the birds alive,
and, after plucking out . the yellow feathers, give them their liberty
again, making ufe of the feathers in their various ornaments
and dreffes; beautiful fpecimens of which may be feen in the:
Leverian MuJ'eum.”
Thus^ far Mr. Latham ; to which I take the liberty to. add, that
the fpecimen from which the annexed engraving was made, dif-
2 ferred