86 MEROPID^. 



», (7, r. Ad. sk. Lamu {Sir J. Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



s. d ad. sk. I.amu, Oct. {Dr. Fischer). Shelley Coll. 



t,v. Ad.sk. Paiifraui River (.SVr J. AT/-/.-). Shelley Coll. 



16. Merops malimbicus. 



p. 162 (It , . . 



67 (1852) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 41 (1857) ; Schl. Mus. Pays- 

 Bas, Merops, p. 7 (1863) ; Beuhen. J. f. 0. 1875, p. 19, 1877, 

 p. 21 ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 89 (1877). 



Merops maliiiibicus, Shaic, Nat. Misc. svii. pi. 701 (1806) ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 100, no. 1215 (1869) ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 48; 

 Dresser, Monogr. Merop. p. 87, pi. 19 (1884) ; Hartert, J. f. O. 

 1886, p. 593; Shelley, Ibis, 1890, p. 166; Sharpe, App. to Jame- 

 son's Bear Column, p. 399 (1890). 



Le Guepier gris-rose, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Guepiers, p. 28, pi. 5 

 (1807). 



Tephraerops hieolor, Beichenb. Handb., Merop. p. 82 (1852). 



Adult male. Upper surface dark ashy grey with a rosy shade ; 

 ■\vin<^-coTerts dark grey, with a slight greenish shade on the inner 

 secondaries ; quills black ; upper tail-coverts and tail vinous red, 

 with dusky ends to the feathers and black shafts ; head uniform 

 dark grey ; lores and a streak through the eye and ear-coverts 

 black ; chin and a broad streak along the cheeks white ; remainder 

 of under surface of body rich rose-colour ; under tail-coverts dark 

 ashy grey, washed with rosy ; under wing-coverts and quill-liuing 

 dark slate-colour, with a rosy tinge on the former : " bill and feet 

 black; iris red" {Hartert). Total leugth 10-2 inches, culmen 1-6, 

 •wing 5'4, tail 3-1, centre tail-feathers -l-G, tarsus 0-45. 



Hub. West Africa, from the Gold Coast to Gaboou. 



a. Ad. sk. Cape Coast. Col. Strachan [P.]. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Accra. Sharpe CoU 

 d e f Ad. sk. Abouri, Aguapim, Feb. 20 {G. Shelley CoU. 



E. S. 4- T. E. Buckley), 



a c? ad. sk, Gaboon, June 24 {T. Thompson). Shelley Coll. 



A. Ad. sk. River Ogowe {H. T. Ansell). Shelley CoU. 



i, k. Ad. sk. Gaboon. Sharpe CoU. 



17. Merops breweri. 



Meropogon breweri, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, ip. 34 ; Heine, 

 J. f. 0. 1859, p. 433; Cass. Journ. Philad. Acad. (2) iv. p. 321, 

 pi. 49. fig. 1 (1860) ; Sharpe ^ Bouvie}-, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 i. p. 40 (1876). 



Bombylonax breweri, Heine, J. f. O. 1859, p. 434 ; Beichen. J.f, O, 

 1877, p. 21. 



Archimerops breweri, Hartl. Arch. f. Naturg. xxvi. pt. 2, p. 90 

 (1860). 



Nyctiornis breweri. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 98, no. 1200 (1869). 



Merops breweri, Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 537 (1881) ; Dresser, 

 Monogr. Merop. p. 21, pi. 5 (1884). 



