. A history of British birds . seleven inches; from the carpal joint to the tip of the wing,five inches and three-quarters. Females are not so brightly coloured as males, the yellowon the throat is paler, and the green tinged with red. The bird here figured, supposed to have been in its secondyear, had the chestnut much paler and not extending belowthe neck, while the lower part of the back was greenish-yellow. A young bird of the year, in the Authors collection, hadthe top of the head green, with a small patch of reddish-brown above each eye, no chestnut on the back, nor darkband bounding the
. A history of British birds . seleven inches; from the carpal joint to the tip of the wing,five inches and three-quarters. Females are not so brightly coloured as males, the yellowon the throat is paler, and the green tinged with red. The bird here figured, supposed to have been in its secondyear, had the chestnut much paler and not extending belowthe neck, while the lower part of the back was greenish-yellow. A young bird of the year, in the Authors collection, hadthe top of the head green, with a small patch of reddish-brown above each eye, no chestnut on the back, nor darkband bounding the throat; the rectrices even at the tip. The vignette represents the sternum of this species.* * Mr. Hancock (B. Northumb. &c. p. 28) has recorded the occurrence in thiscountry of the Blue-tailed Bee-eater, Merops2^Jtili2Jpe7isis, P. L. S. Miiller,M. philippinus, Boddaert, an example of which was shot near the Snook,Seaton Carew, in August, 1862. No other instance of the appearance inEurope of this eastern species is PICARIjE. KINGFISHER. 443 ALCEDINID^.
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