2. MEMTTOPHAors. 45 



«'". Tliroat crimson ; upper tail-coverts 

 green. 

 rt*. No blue on eyebrow and no blue 



cheek-stripe buUocId, p. 51. 



6*. A blue eyebrow, and a streak of blue 



^ below the ear-coverts f remit us, p. 52. 



b'". Throat golden yellow ; upper tail- 

 coverts green boleslavskii, p. 53. 



g' . Throat crimson, with a white chin and 



^^ cheek-stripe ; upper tail-coverts blue . . alhifrons, p. 53. 

 h '. Throat white, as also the cheeks ; breast 



pale fawn-colour; a blue eyebrow .... re?,wV«, p. 54. 

 d'. With a hand of black on the fore neck ; 

 under tail-coverts emerald-green. 

 i". No chestnut on the lower throat before 



„ tl?? l^lack bar leschenaidti, p. 55. 



k '. Vihh a shade of chestnut preceding the 



black bai- on the fore neck moinhoii, p. 55, 



1. Melittophagus meridionalis. (Plate T. fig. 4.) 



? Le^Guepier d'AngoIa, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 558, pi. xliv. fio'. 1 a 



(1760). '^ 



P Petit Guepier vert et bleu a queue etagee, Moiitb. Hist. Nat. Ols 



vi. p. 503 (1779). 

 .P Angola Bee-eater, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 679 (1782). 

 ? Merops angolensis, Gin. S. N. i. p. 463 (1788). 

 Merops erythropterus {nee Gm.), Mont. Ibis, 1862, p. 334- Se/il 



Mus. Pays-Bas, Merops, p. 10 (1883, pt.) ; Layard, B. k Afr. 



p. / 0(1867); Bucaye, Orn. Anyola, p. 92 (1877); Souza,Journ. 



Lisb. 1887, pp. 45, 91, 1888, p. 220. 

 INIerops variegatus {nee V.), Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 324 ; Finsch & Hartl. 



Voy. Ostafr. p. 191 (1870, pt.). 

 Melittophagus ]i\\si\\i\s, (nee MiilL), Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 150- Gur- 



ney^ in Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 62 (1872) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, 



Melittophagus erythropterus (nee Gm.), Gurney, Ibis, 1862 p 27 



Merops pusillus, Gray, Rand-l. B. i. p. 101, no. 1222 (1869 pt ) • 

 Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 363; Sharpe Sf Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zooi. 

 France, i. p. 40 (1876); Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 100, 

 BOo (18/6-81); Barratt, Ibis, 1870, p. 197; Ayres, Ib£, 1879, 

 p. 290 ; .S/tarpe in Gates' Matabele-Ld. p. 301 (1881). 



Merops cyanostictus {nee Cub.),Iteichen. J.f. 0. 1877, p. 21 ; Bocaoe 

 Urn. Anyoln, App. p. .537 (1881). ' 



Melittophagus minutus {nee V.), Holub ^- Von Pelz. Beitr Orn 

 Sddafr. p. 67 (1882). 



Achilt male. General colour above bright grass-green ; wing- 

 coverts like the back ; primary-coverts olive-green like the outer 

 web of the primaries, which are fawn-coloured on the inner web 

 and blackish towards the tips ; the secondaries bright fawn-colour 

 With a broad terminal band of black, the inner ones green tinged 

 with bluish ; upper tail-coverts and two centre tail-feathers £;reen 

 like the back, with a blackish shaft-streak ; remainder of tail bright 

 fawn-colour at the base, with greenish margins and asbv-white 



