88 MEROPID^. 



5. NYCTIORNIS. „ 



Type. 



Nyctinomus, Sivainson, Zool. Illustr. 2nd ser. ii. text to 



pi. 56 ( 1831) N. amicta. 



Nvctiovnis, Sicainson, Zool. Illustr. 2nd ser. ii. text to 

 "pi. 56 (1831) . .. N. amicta. 



Alcemerops, Isid. Geoffr. Sf.-TIilaire, Nouv. Ann. Mus. 



(fHist. Nat. i. p. 395 (1832) N. amicta. 



Bucia, Hodys. J. A. S. Beng. v. p. 360 (1836) N. atliertoni. 



Napophila, Hodffs. J. A. S. Beng. x. p. 29 (1841) N. athertoni. 



Ramie. India, extending to the Burmese countries, Siam and 

 Cochin China, southwards through the Malaj-an Peninsula to 

 Sumatra and Borneo. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Long throat-feathers hlue ; head hluish green .... athertoni, p. 88. 

 h. Long throat-feathers scarlet ; fore part of the 



crown lilac amicta, p. 90. 



1. Nyctiornis atliertoni. 



Nvctiornis athertoni, Ja^y/. S, SeUnj, III. Orn. ii. pi. 58 (1825-43); 

 'McClell. F. Z. 8. 1839, p. l55 ; Graij, Gen. B. i. p. 87 (1846) ; id. 



Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 58 (1846); id. Cat. Fissir. 



Brit. Mus. p. 72 (1848) ; Bp. Cunsp. i. p. 164 (1850) ; Gould, B. 



Asia, i. pi. 37 (1850) ; Eeichenb. Handb., Merop. p. 81, Taf. 453. 



figs. 3262-63 (1852) ; Bp. Consp. Volucr. Ajiis. p. 8 (1854) ; Horsf. 



<§- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 89 (1854) ; Cah. Sf Heine, 



Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 132 (1860) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 211 (1863) ; 



Bh/th, Ibis, 1866, p. 345; Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 407; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 98, no. 1196 (1869) ; Blanf. Ibis, 1870, p. 465; 



Blyth, Ibis, 1872, p. 89 : Hume, Nests ^ Eqgs Ind. B. p. 103 



(1673); id. Str. F. ii. p. '409 (1874); Bhjth k Wald. B. Burm. 



p. 73 (1875) ; Hume, Str. F. v. p. 18 (1877) ; Fairb. t. c. p. 394 ; 



Hmne Sr Davis. Str. F. vi. p. 68 (1878) ; Ball, Str. F. vii. p. 203 



( 1878) ; Anders. Rep. Zool. Exped. Yun-nan, p. 383 (1878) ; Hume, 



Str. F. viii. p. 85 (1879) ; Tiraut, Bull. Comm. Aqric. Cochin China, 



(3) i. p. 98 (1879) ; Butler, Cat. B. S. Bomb. Pres. p. 18 (1880) ; 



Binqham. Str. F. ix. p. 153 (1880) ; Oates, Handb. B. Br. Burm. 



ii. p. 63 (1883); Davison, Str. F. x. p. 351 (1883); Dressrn; 



Monoqr. Mernp. p. 7, pi. 3 (1884) ; Macgr. Str. F. x. p. 436 



(1887) ; Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 42 (1888) ; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests 



^ Egqs Ind. B. iii. p. 58 (1890). 

 Bucia nipaleusis, Hodg.^. J. A. S. Beng. v. p. 361 (1836). 

 Nyctiornis cseruleus, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 333 (1837). 

 Nyctiornis amherstiana, Bogle, Himal. Bot. i. p. 76 (1839). 

 Alcemerops paleazureus, Less. Eev. Zool. 1840, p. 262. 

 Merops cyanogularis, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 229 (1840). 

 Bucia athertoni, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. x. j). 29 (1841); Blyth, op. 



cit. xi. p. 104 (1842). 

 Napophila meropura, Hodgs. Icon, ined., Passeres, pis. 24, 25 (no, 



201) ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844). 

 Napophila nipalensis, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844). 

 Alcemerops athertoni, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 52 (1849). 

 Merops athertoni, Sc/il. Mub Pays-Bas, Merops, p. 14 (1863). 



