3. MEROPS. go 



forehead and eyebrow. Total length 7-5 inches, culmen 1-0, wins 

 3-t5, tail 3-7, tarsus 0-35. ^ 



Hab. Neighbourhood of Muscat, Arabia. 

 "• ^^- ^^- Muscat. Colonel Miles [P.]. (Type 



*,'^. Ad.sk. Muscat. B:'j%:S:p:i 



12. Merops cyanophrys. 

 ^^aseor ''^'"''"P^"'^'' '^"^- ^ ^''''"'' ^"'- ^ein. Th. ii. p. 137 

 Merops cyanophrys^ef/^/. Om. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 203, pi. vi. (1869) • 

 ?^^,y'J^^TJ\^; '• PV,100 no. 1212 (1869); ' Lrtl. P. Z.S. 

 1881, p. 95/ ; Yerhunj, Ibis, 1886, p. 15. 



Adult. Similar to M. viridk, but more bluish green both above 

 and below, and distinguished by its deep cobalt-blue throat and 

 cheeks the entire forehead and a broad eyebrow being of the same 

 deep blue colour. Total length 7-9 inches, ciUmen 1-3, win- 3-65 

 tail 2-9, centre tail-feathers 3-0, tarsus 0-35. 



Hab. Southern Arabia. The locality " Sennaar " attributed to this 

 species in the Paris Museum, and admitted by Mr. Dresser, wiH 

 doubtless prove to have been given in error. 



a Ad. sk. Sheik Othman, Aden. Colonel Yerburv fP.l 



b. Ad. sk. Aden. C. Chevallier, Es^. [P.]. 



13. Merops boehmi. 



Merops (Melittophagus) boehmi, Reichen. J.f. O. 1882 p. 233 pi ii 

 fig. 3. ' r ) f • • 



Merops dresseri, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 303, pi. xvi. 

 Melittophagus boehmi, Reichen. J. f. O. 1884, p. 236. 

 Airops boehmi, Reichen. t. c. p. 236. 



Merops boehmi, Dresser, Monogr. Merop. p. 45. pi xii ri884^ 

 Matschie, J.f. O. 1887, p. 140. ^' ' ^ ' 



Adult (type of M. dresseri). General colour above bright grass- 

 green, including the scapulars and wing-coverts ; the lower back 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts slightly washed with blue ; quills' 

 green, internally pale fawn-colour, and tipped with blackish, the 

 inner secondaries entirely green; tail-feathers green, with black 

 shafts and with black tips, the latter slightly shaded with blue ■ 

 crown of head cinnamon-rufous or light bay ; a line at the base of 

 the forehead, lores, and a band through the eye to the ear-coverts 

 black ; cheeks and throat fawn-colour, the former separated from 

 the ear-coverts by a line of blue; remainder of under surface from 

 the fore neck downwards green, slightly bluish on the under tail- 

 coverts ; on each side of the vent a tuft of ashy feathers ; under 

 wing-coverts fawn-colour, as well as the hning of the quills Total 

 length 9-5 inches, culmen 1-2, wing 3-2, tail 2-S, centre tail-feathers 

 5-3, tarsus 0-35. 

 Hab. Eastern Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Rovuma River, E. Africa SheUey Coll. 



(J. Thompson). (Type of M. dresseri.) 



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