. A general history of birds . empts have been madeto keep them in cages, but they seldom survive long, as they feedonly on the wing, and on living insects. We have met with thisspecies in more than one collection in this kingdom, and frequentlyin drawings, where it likewise is named Pateronga and also in Java. 9—VARIEGATED BEE-EATER.—Pl. lxix. Merops ornatus, Ind. Orn. Sup. xxxv. Mountain Bee-Eater, Lewin N. Holt. Birds, pl. 18. Variegated Bee-Eater, Gen. Si/71. 155. pl. 128. Shaivs Zoot. viii. 158. SOMEWHAT larger than the Red-winged Species. Bill black ;top of the head,
. A general history of birds . empts have been madeto keep them in cages, but they seldom survive long, as they feedonly on the wing, and on living insects. We have met with thisspecies in more than one collection in this kingdom, and frequentlyin drawings, where it likewise is named Pateronga and also in Java. 9—VARIEGATED BEE-EATER.—Pl. lxix. Merops ornatus, Ind. Orn. Sup. xxxv. Mountain Bee-Eater, Lewin N. Holt. Birds, pl. 18. Variegated Bee-Eater, Gen. Si/71. 155. pl. 128. Shaivs Zoot. viii. 158. SOMEWHAT larger than the Red-winged Species. Bill black ;top of the head, and nape, dull orange, the middle of the feathersdarker; through the eye, from the base of the bill, a broad blackstreak, continuing a good way behind it, and ending in a point;beneath this a pale blue streak ; chin orange yellow ; on the breasta triangular patch of black; after this the under parts are yellow,but the belly itself, thighs, and vent are bluish white ; back part of * These seem to be general names. hi//, ( vr//-/: ■or. BEE-EATER. 131 the neck, and wing coverts green ; the back mixed green, andbrownish orange; lower part of it, and rump blue; the middle partof the wing has some series of green feathers, with fulvous margins,and others wholly fulvous; quills green, with the inner marginsblack; the second quills edged with yellow; the two middle tailfeathers continued to double the length of the others, as in several ofthe Genus, the additional part very narrow, and furnished with veryslender webs, the colour of them blue; the rest of the tail chestnut;legs dusky. The female, or one supposed to be so, had the forehead, to themiddle of the crown, blue, the nape only being orange, which colouralso occupies the chin ; the black through the eye, the blue beneath,and the patch on the throat, the same as in the other; back brownishgreen; rump blue; the two middle tail feathers as in the former, theothers black ; wing coverts like the back; the rest of the
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