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coverts ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts silvery blue ; 

 quills green, all but the innermost secondaries with a black bar at 

 the ends, the inner web rufous fawn-colour ; tail-feathers blue, 

 with black shafts and narrow blackish ends, the two centre feathers 

 with a black end of about an inch long ; entire crown, hind neck, 

 and mantle bay or bright chestnut, as well as the sides of the neck ; 

 lores, feathers below the eye, and ear-coverts black ; cheeks light 

 cobalt ; under surface of body emerald-green, washed with blue on 

 the throat ; under tail-coverts light cobalt-blue ; under wing- 

 coverts and quill-liniug fawn-colour : " bill black ; feet brown ; iris 

 crimson " {A. Everett). Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 1-6, wing 

 4"25, tail 3*2, centre tail-feathers 5*5, tarsus 0'4. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 11 inches, 

 culmen 1"6, wing 4'75, tail 3'6, centre tail-feathers 6'3, tarsus 0'35. 



Young. Differs from the adults in being duller and greener, the 

 red of the head being overahaded with green and the mantle and 

 upper back green ; the under surface is paler, the throat and abdo- 

 men pale blue and the breast light green. 



Hah. Confined to the Philippine Archipelago. 



a. Ad. St. Philippine Islands. India Museum. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Manila. Gould Coll. 

 d,e.S'i ad. sk. Luzon, April {A. B. Meyer). Tweeddale Coll. 

 /. (S ad. sk. Monte Alban, March {A. H. Tweeddale Coll. 



Everett), 



g. Ad.sk. Panay. Prof.Steere[C.l. 



h, i. (S ad. ; k. Valencia, Negros, Aug. {A. H. Tweeddale Coll. 



imm. sk. Everett). 



I. S ad. sk. Placer, July {A. H. Everett). Tweeddale Coll. 



m. $ ad. sk. Butuan, May {A. H. Everett). Tweeddale Coll. 



n, o. cT ad. sk. S. Leyte, Sept. (A. H. Everett). Tweeddale Coll. 



;;. c? ad. sk. Qe\)\.i,UAYc\\ {A. R. Everett). Tweeddale Coll. 



q. (S ad. sk. Zamboanga. Voy. H.M.S. 



' ChaUeno'er.' 



3. Merops sumatranus. 



Merops sumatranus, Raffl. Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. p. 294 (1821) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 8G (1846) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 53 



(1849) ; Gould, F. Z. S. 1850, p. 151 ; Walden, Trans. Z. S. ix. 



p. 151, pi. xxvi. fig. 2 (1875) ; Ttveedd. Ibis, 1877, pp. 7, 297 ; 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 248 ; ITume, Sfr. F. viii. p. 48 (1879) ; 



Tiraut, Bidl. Soc. Co?nm. Agric. Cochin Chine, (3) i. p. 98 (1879) ; 



Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 329, 1881, p. 793 ; Nicholson, Ibis, 1882, 



p. 56, 1883, p. 243 ; Dresser, Monogr. Merop. p. 2.3, pi. 6 (1884). 

 Merops cyanopygius, Less. Traite, p. 238 (1831). 

 Merops badius {nen Gm.), Bp. Coyisp. i. p. 162 (1850) ; Horsf. Sc 



Moore, Cat. B. Miis. E. I. Co. i. p. 87 (1854) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 



1854, p. 264 ; 3Iotley ^ Dillw. Nat. Hist. Labuan, p. 14 (1855) ; 



Scl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 213 ; Schl. Mm. Pays-Bas, Merops, p. 3 



(1863) ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 377. 

 Merops bicolor iji£c Bodd.), Gray, Rand-l. B. i. p. 99, no. 1202 



(1869) ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 90 (1874) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, 



p. 101; i<l. Ibis, 1876, p. .33, 1877, p. 5; David ^- Omt. Ois. 



