1. DICEOCEKCrS. -i'i 



to Gaboon *, extendiag to the Upper White Nile and Equatorial 

 Africa. 



a, 6. Ad. et jay. Rufisque, Senegambirt, Jan., Tweeddale Coll. 

 sk. '^IsiTch (L. Lcifflaizv). 



c. Ad. sk. River Gambia (CW.»/w^a«). Sharpe Coll. 



d. S ad. sk. Sierra Leone {Dr. Feryusoti). Jardine Coll. 



(Type of M. chrysulaimus.) 



e. Ad. sk. Shonga, R. Niger. ' Capt. M. Ferryman 



2. Dicrocercus hirundineus. (Plate I. fig. 1.) 



Merops liinmdineus, Lkht. Cat. rer. nat. rariss. p. 21 (1793); 

 Fifisch ^ Hartl Vog. Ostafr. p. 193 (1870). 



Le Guepier a queue foiuchue ou le Guepier Tawa, LevaiU. Hist. 

 Xaf. Guep. iii. p. 35, pi. 8 (1807). 



Merops hinmdinaceus, Vieill. N.Dict. dHist. Nat. xiv. p. 21 (1817); 

 Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 86 (1846, pt.) ; id. Cat. FUsir. Brit. Mits. p. 71 

 (1848) ; Monteiro, P. Z. S. 1865. p. 96 : Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 70 

 (1867) ; id. Ibis, 1869, p. 72 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 100, no. 1221 

 (1869) ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 93 (1881). 



Melittophagus taw^a, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 316. 



Merops taiva, Cuvier, E'egne Anim. i. p. 442 (1829). 



Melittophagus hirundinaceus, Bp. Coiisp. i. p. 163 (1850, pt.). 



Melittophagus liirundineus, StricM. ^- Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852. p. 154. 



Dicrocercus hirundinaceus, Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 63 

 (1872) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1878, p. 28o ; Sichoh. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 355 ; 

 Sharjw in Gates' Mafabele-Ld. App. p. 302 (1881) ; Shelley, 

 P. Z. S. 1881, p. 569 ; Holub <$• Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Sildafr. p. m 

 (1882) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard: s B. S. Afr. pp. 101, 805 (1884). 



Dicrocercus hirundineus, Dresser, Monogr. Merop. p. 99, pi. 22 

 (1884). 



Merops hirundo, Scltalow, J.f. O. 1886, p. 420. 



Adult male. Similar to D. fitrcatus, but distinguished by the 

 absence of blue on the forehead and eyebrow, both of these parts 

 beiuf green like the rest of the head : " bill black ; feet greyish 

 dusky; iris bright crimson" {T. Ayres). Total length S'o inches, 

 culmeu 1-3, wing 3-95, tail 4-05, tarsus 0-35. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. 



Hub. South Africa, to the Zanzibar region on the east coast, and 

 to Damara-Land and Benguela on the west. 



a. Ad. sk. South Africa (Sir A. Smith). Jardine ColL 



b. Ad. sk. Natal. Gould Coll. 



c. (5 ad. sk. Natal, June (T. .-l^rf*'). Gurney Coll. 



d. 2 acl.sk. Potchefstroom, June 2 {T. Gurney CoU. 



Ayi-es). 

 e,f, g. Ad. sk. Makalaka Country {Dr. Brad- SheUey Coll. 



shaic). 



* I Lave not seeu a specimen from this country. 



