TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 201 



Family MEROPIDAE: Bee-eaters 

 Genus MELITTOPHAGUS Boie 



Melittophagus variegatus loringi Mearns 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 48: 393, January 19, 1915. 

 216565. Adult male. Butiaba (on the shore of Lake Albert), Bunyoro 

 District, Uganda Protectorate. January 6, 1910. Collected by John 

 A. Loring. Original number 674. Smithsonian African Expedition. 



Genus MEROPS Linnaeus 



Merops superciliosus donaldsoni Oberholser 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 27 : 737, May 21, 1904. 



=Merops superciliosus superciliosus Linnaeus. See Peters, Checklist 

 of birds of the world 5 : 235, 1945. 



177908. Adult male. Bar Madu, headwaters of the Ganana (Ganale) 

 River, Gallaland, south-central Ethiopia (not Somaliland as now under- 

 stood). February 19, 1895. Collected by A. Donaldson Smith. 

 Original number 512. 



Family CORACIIDAE: Rollers 

 Genus EURYSTOMUS Vieillot 



Euryetomus orientalis abundus Ripley 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 55: 170, December 31, 1942. 

 276483. Adult male. Nanking, Kiangsu Province, China. May 20, 1893. 

 Collected by Arthur de C. Sowerby. Original number 1948. 



Eurystomus orientalis deignani Ripley 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 55: 171, December 31, 1942. 

 350027. Adult male. The right bank of the river Mae Nan, just north of 

 Ban Muang Ngop (lat. 19°30' N., long. 100°55' E), Nan Province, 

 northern Siam. April 22, 1936. Collected by Herbert G. Deignan. 

 Original number 1212. 



Family BUCEROTIDAE: Hornbills 



Genus RHYTICEROS Reichenbach 



Cranorrhinus corrugatus megislus Oberholser 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 60 (7) : 6, October 26, 1912. 

 =Rhyticeros leucocephalus megistus (Oberholser), fide Deignan (ms.). 

 179797. Adult male. Pulau Tana Bala, Batu Group, Barussan Islands, 



eastern Indian Ocean off Sumatra. February 11, 1903. Collected by 



William L. Abbott. 



