. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE RED-THROATED BEE-EATER. 141 tliis Bee-eater is so stupefied by the unwonted turmoil, and repeated explosion of fire-anns, tliat it lies helplessly on the branch, and permits itself to be taken by A2UKE-THR0ATED BEE-EATER.—iVjciior/jis athcrloid. There is a very beautiful and closely allied species to the above bird, namely, the RosE-BREASTED Nyctiornis, or Red-faced Nigiit-feeder {Ni/ctiornis amicta), of which a passing mention has already been made. This beautiful bird is a n
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE RED-THROATED BEE-EATER. 141 tliis Bee-eater is so stupefied by the unwonted turmoil, and repeated explosion of fire-anns, tliat it lies helplessly on the branch, and permits itself to be taken by A2UKE-THR0ATED BEE-EATER.—iVjciior/jis athcrloid. There is a very beautiful and closely allied species to the above bird, namely, the RosE-BREASTED Nyctiornis, or Red-faced Nigiit-feeder {Ni/ctiornis amicta), of which a passing mention has already been made. This beautiful bird is a native of India, and is sup- posed to feed chiefly by night, although the fact is not very clearly ascertained. In the beauty and delicasy of the tints which stain its jilumage, it may challenge comparison even with the trogons themselves. The crown of the head is a fine lilac, and the face part of the throat, and the upper part of the breast, are a bright rose-carmine. The remainder of the plumage is golden green. The total length rather exceeds one foot. The very handsome bird Avhicli is indiiferently known by the name of Bullock;' s Bee- eater, and the Bltte-bellied Bee-eater, is an inhabitant of Western Africa, and has been taken in Senegal. It is a truly beautiful creatui'e. elegant in form and very briUiant in color. It is not a very lai'ge bird, being considerably smaller than the common Bee-eater of Europe, and measuring only seven inches in total length, of which the bill occupies one inch. The upper portions of this species are light green, vatli the exception of the upper parts of the neck, which is colored by a reddish crimson hue, the two tints merging gradually into each other without any definite line of demarcation. From the gape of the mouth a black stripe runs towards the back of the neck, enveloping the eye in its progi-ess, and a small spot of the same jetty hue is seen upon the tip of the chin. The throat is of the most brilliant scarlet, and the breast an
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