64 MEROriD.'E. 



Ibis, 1872, p. 3 ; Marshall, t. c. p. 203 ; G. C. Taylor, Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 230; Brooke, Ibis, 1873, p. 236; Hume, Nests S,- Eqqs Ind. B. 

 p. 103 (1873); Aniin. Sf Salvad. Viaqg. Boqos, p. «o (1873); 

 Severtz. Turhest. Jevotn. p. 68 (1873) ; ih-ii/Iii, Ibis, 1874, p. 237; 

 Buckley, t. c. p. 363; Irby, B. Gibr. p. (v) (1875); Shelley, Ibis, 

 1875, p. 69 ; Danf. S,- Harvie Brown, t. c. p. 300 ; Fallon, Ois. 

 Belff. p. 121 (1875); Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 122 (1876); 

 Wharton, Ibis, 1876, p. 19 ; Dresser, t. c. p. 319 ; id. B. Eur. v. 

 p. 155, pi. 295 (1877) ; Finsch, Ibis, 1877, p. 52 ; Danf. f. c. p. 272 ; 

 Newt. ed. Yarr. Br. B. ii. p. 4-35 (1S78) ; Finsch, ferk. z.-b. Ges. 

 Wien, xxix. p. 153 (1879) ; Wardlatc Ramsay, Ibis, 1879 p. 446 ; 

 Hume, Str.F. viii. p. 85 (1879) ; Finsch, J^erh.z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxi. 

 p. 154 (1879) ; Wardlatv Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 49 ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, 

 p. 48 ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 86 (1881) ; Sharpe in Gates' Matabele 

 Ld. App. p. 301 (1881); Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881,p.568 ; C.Swinh. Ibis, 

 1882, p. 102 ; Seeb. t. c. p. 209; Tristr. t. c. pp. 411, 417 ; Diion, 

 t. c. p. 660 ; Holub l^- Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. p. 65 (1882) ; B. O. 

 U. List Br. B. p. 82 (1883) ; Seeb. Ibis, 1883, p. 21 ; Homeyer ^^■ 

 Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 83 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's 

 B. S. Afr. pp. 96, 804 (1884) : Chapm. Ibis, 1884, p. 69 ; Clarke, 

 t. c. p. 144 ; Ayres, t. c. p. 223 ; Dresser, Monogr. Merop. p. 75, 

 pi. 18 (1884) ; Tristr. Faun. S^- Flor. Palest, p. 88 (1884) ; Salvad. 

 Ann. Mtis. Civic. Getwr. (2) i. p. 107 (1884) ; Seeb. Hist. Br. B. 

 ii. p. 321 (1884) ; Radde, Orn. Cauc. p. 319 (1884) ; Madardsz, 

 Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 153 (1884) ; Murray, Vertebr. Faun. Sind, 

 p. 108 (1884) ; Whitehead, Ibis, 1885, p. 27 ; Ayres, t. c. p. 342 ; 

 Shar2}e, Ibis, 1886, pp. 487, 498 ; Sonza, Jorn. Lisb. 1886, no. 46, 

 p. 2 ; Giql. Avif. Ital. p. 216 (1886) ; Tait, Ibis, 1887, p. 307 ; 

 Salvad. Elenc. Ucc. Ital. p. 74 (1887) ; Reichen. J. f. 0. 1887, p. 300 ; 

 Guillem. Ibis, 1888, p. 112; Cordeau.v, t. c. pp. 221, 223; Lilford, 

 Col. Fig. B. Brit. Isl. part ix. (1888) ; Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. (2) 

 V. pt. 3, p. 84 (1889) ; St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 157 ; Lilford, t. c. 

 p. 331 ; Waldo, t. c. p. 609 ; Sharpe, Rq). 2nd Yarkand Mission, 

 Aves,^. 114 (1891). 



Merops congener, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 183 (1766) ; Gm. Si/st. Nat. 

 i. p. 46 (1788). 



L'Icterocepbale ou le Guepier a tete jaime. Month. Hist. N'at. Ois. 

 vi. p. 510 (1779). 



? Le Grand Guepier vert et blanc a gorge jaune. Month, t. c. p. 502 

 (1779). 



Common Bee-eater, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 667 (1782). 



Yellow-headed Bee-eater, Lath. t. c. p. 672 (1782). 



? Yellow-throated Bee-eater, Lath. t. c. p. 678 (1782). 



Le Guepier Tulgaire, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Guepiers, iii. p. 21, pis. 1, 2 

 (1807). 



? Merops chrysocephalus, Steph. in Shaiv's Gen. Zool. viii. p. 176 

 (1811); rleill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 25 (1817). 



Merops apiarius, Steph. op. cit. xiii. pt. 2, p. 73 (1825). 



Merops hungarise, Brehm, Voy. Deutschl. p. 146 (1831). 



Merops elegans, Brehm, J'ogelf. p. 60 (1855). 



Adult male. Forehead white, succeeded by a blue line which 

 joins a narrow eyebrow of blue shading into green and is separated 

 by a green shade from the crown of the head and hind neck, which 

 are chestnut, this colour overspreading the mantle and fading into 

 the creamy buff of the scapulars and back, the lower back being 



