lt)6 STUR-MD.i:. 



(1870), iv. p. civ (1871) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 157; Sharpe, Cat. 

 Afr. B. p. 57 (1871) ; Gurney in Aiulerss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 163 

 (1872); Anfi?i. ^- Snlvnd. Viar/f/. Bogos, p. 124 (1873); Gurney, 

 Ibis, I873, p. 256 ; Burldey, Ihis, 1874, p. 879 ; Bocnye, Orn. Angola, 

 p. 299 (1877-81); Sharpe in Oafes' Matabe/f-Land, A-pY>. p. 316 

 (1&81) ; Uohib ^- Peh. Bcitr. Orn. Siidafr. p. 109 (1882); ,Shnrpe, 

 ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. pp. 418, 845(1884); Hartert, J. f. O. 

 1886, p. 386; Souza, Jorn. Lisb. xi. p. 165 (1887) ; Bi'dtik. Notes 

 Leyden Mus. p. 72 (1889). 



Le Pique-BcBuf du Si^n^gal, Bavhent. PI. Enl. ii. pi. 203. 



African Bee-eater, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. i. p. 359, pi. xii. (1781). 



Buphaga ervthrorhvuclia (nee Stan/ei/), Antin. Cat. descrr. Ucc. 

 p. G2 (18(34) ; Sahad. Atti R. Acca'd. Torino, v. p. 739 (1870). 



Adult female. General coloiir above brown, the lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts palo ocbreous buff; lesser and median wing- 

 coverts like the back ; greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills darker and more chocolate-brown ; the innermost second- 

 aries lighter brown like the scapulars ; centre tail-feathers chocolate- 

 brown, the remainder externally chocolate, internally light chestnut ; 

 head and neck all round chocolate-brown, a little darker than the 

 back ; remainder of under surface of body ochreous, a little deeper 

 on the sides and slightly washed with brown on the fore neck ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries, as well as the inner aspect of the 

 quills, chocolate-brown : " bill yellow, the terminal half red ; feet 

 black: iris ^erj red" (Emin Pasha). Total length 9 inches, cul- 

 men 0"7, wing 4-7, tail 3"3, tarsus 0'9. 



AcluU male. Similar to the female. 



Hab. Nearly the whole of Africa, excepting the forest-districts 

 of the west coast. 



2. Buphaga erythrorhyncha. 



Tanagra erythrorhyncha, Stanley in Salfs Voy. Abyss., App. p. 69' 



(1814). 

 Buphaga habessinica, Heinpr. Sf Ehr. fol. w, Taf. 9 (1828). 



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