Birds from the White Nile. 431 



d. c?. Kaka, 17th April. No. 373. 



e. ? iram. Goz-Abu-Gumar, 16th May. No. 476. 

 Iris crimson ; bill black ; legs greyish black. 



As Mr. Witherby remarks, African examples of this 

 I3ee- eater have the throat green or yellowish green, whereas 

 in the great majority of Indian specimens the throat is blue 

 or bluish green. At the same time, he overlooks the fact 

 that a number of Indian birds in the British Museum 

 Collection from Sambhur, Ahmednuggur, Chittagong, and 

 various other parts of India and Burmah have the throat 

 yellowish green and are indistinguishable from African 

 examples. I therefore prefer to follow Dr. Sharpe in the 

 ' Catalogue of Birds ■" and to regard all of them as belonging 

 to one species, M. viridis. 



[The Green Bee-eater was by no means common. — 

 E. M. H.] 



90. ]\Ierops persicus. 



Merops j^ersicus Pall. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvii. 

 p. C6 (1892) ; Witherby, p. 263. 



a-e. S ? • Fashoda, 22nd March. Nos. 169-173. 



f,g. S ' Kaka, 22nd April. Nos. 387, 388. 



Iris crimson ; bill black ; legs dusky. 



[I saw one flock of the Persian Bee-eater at Fashoda, and 

 a couple of birds at Kaka. — 11. M. H.] 



91. Merops ALBicoLLis. 



Merops albicollis Vieill. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvii. 

 p. 76 (1892). 



a-h. S ? • Goz-Abu-Gumar, 18th May. Nos. 500-507. 



Iris crimson ; bill black ; legs pale ochrcous. 



[The lovely White-throated Bee-eater was not met with 

 south of Goz-Abu-Gumar. — R. M. IL] 



92. Merops nubicus. 



Merops nubicus Gmel. ; Grant, Ibis, 1901, p. 673. 



a-e. (S ? . Gebel Ain, 11th Feb. Nos. 51-55. 



/. S • Renk, 12th May. No. 468. 



Iris crimson ; bill and legs black. 



[We met with the beautiful Crimson-breasted Bee-cater 



