2. MELITTOPHAGUS. 55 



12. Melittophagus leschenaulti. 



Le Guepier Laicbenot, Levuill. Hist. Nat. Guepiers, iii. p. 55, pi. 18 



(1807). _ 

 ? Le Guepier quinticolor, Levaill. t. c. p. 51, pi. 15 (1867). 

 Merops leschenaulti, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 17 (1817) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 86 (1846) ; id. List Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 70 



(1848, pt.). 

 ? Merops quinticolor, Vieill. N Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 21 (1817, 



ex Levaill.). 

 Merops urica, Horsf. Tram. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 172 (1821). 

 Merops qiiinticolor, Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 88 



(1854, pt.); Nichols. Ibis, 1881, p. 143; Vor derm. Nat. Tijdschr. 



Ncderl. Lid. xli. p. 186 (1882), xlii. p. 47 (1883), xliv. p. 191 



(1885), xlvi. p. 70 (1887). 

 Melittophagus leschenaulti, Dresser, Monogr. Merop. p. 121, pi. 27 



(1885). 



Adult male. General colour green, inclining to golden green on 

 the mantle ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts light silvery 

 blue ; wing-coverts green ; quills externally green, internally rufous, 

 the ends of the quills with a black bar, the inner secondaries green ; 

 tail-feathers greenish blue with black shafts, the inner webs dusky 

 as well as the ends of the feathers ; crown of head and neck light 

 chestnut or bay, extending over the mantle ; lores blackish ; ear- 

 coverts chestnut ; cheeks and throat yellow, succeeded by a line of 

 black, separated from a yellow patch on the fore neck by a greenish- 

 blue shade ; remainder of under surface of body pale emerald-green ; 

 the breast and flanks slightly washed with yellow, the abdomen 

 becoming gradually more blue, the under tail-coverts pale sea-blue ; 

 under wing-coverts and quill-liniug rufous or pale chestnut. Total 

 length 7'2 inches, culmen 1-25, wing 3-95, tail 8-05, tarsus 0-4. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 7'7 inches, cul- 

 men 1-3, wing 3-75, tail 3-3, tarsus 0-4. 



Hah. Confined to the island of Java. 



a. Ad. sk. Java (Horsfeld). India Museum. 



b, c. S 2 fid. sk. Java (Diard). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 d, e. Ad. sk. Java. Tweeddale Coll. 



13. Melittophagus swinhoii. 



? Le Guepier a teste rouge des Indes, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 563, pi. 44 

 fig. 3 (1760). 



?Le Guepier a tete rouge, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 508 (1779). 



? Red-headed Bee-eater, Shaio S^ Nodder, Nat. Misc. pi. 357 (1778) ; 

 Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 679 (1782). 



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



Merops urica {nee Horsf), S'tvains. Zuol. III. pi. 8 (1820, fig. male). 



Merops quinticolor {nee V.), Hodgs. Icon, iyied. in Brit. Mus. 

 Passeres, pi. 22. fig. 1, no. 561 ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 

 (1844); Gray, Cat. Manim. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 57 (1846) ; 

 id. Gen. B. i. p. 86 (1846) ; id. List Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 70 (1848, 

 pt.) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 163 (1850) ; Kelaart, Prodr. Cat. p. 199 

 (1852) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. E. I. Co. Mus. i. pp. 88, 416 



