[From the. JoutiNAL 01" the Bombay aSatural History HocjctYjMar. 25, 1V22.] 



IIANB-LLST OF THE '' BIKDS OF INDIA. " 



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E. 0, yXUAUT BaKEK, F.L.y., F.Z.S., M.B.U.U. C'.F.A.O.U. 



Part V. 



(Continued from Page ICG of (his rohiuie.) 



Sub-order MEROPES. 



Famil}^ Meropid^. 



• 362 (IOII6) Merops orientalis orientalis. The Common Indian 

 Bee-Eater. 



M. orientalis Lath., Inch Orn. Suppl., p. .cram (1801), [Mali- 

 rait a, India). 



Lidia, Bengal to Ceylon. 

 ^3(*i (102G) Merops orientalis birmanus. The Burmese Green 

 Bee-Eater. 



Merops viridis birmanus Neumann., Orn. Monalsber., 11)10, 

 p. 80, (Iraioaddy). 



Assam and Burma. 



1364- (102G) Merops orientalis biludschicus. The Sind Green 

 Bee-Eater. 



Merops viridis biludschicus Neumann., op. cit., p. 80 (Persian 

 Baluchistan). 



8. E. Persia to .Sind and Baluchistan. 

 136s (1027) Merops superciliosus javanicus. The Blue-tailed 

 Bee-Eater. 

 Merops javanicus Horsf., Trans. Lin. S., 1821, p. 171, (Java) 

 India, Ceylon and Burma to Java. 



1366. (1028) Merops persicus persicus. The Blue-cheeked Bee- 

 Eater. 



Merops pcrsica Pull., Rets, versch. russ. Reichs., ii., p. 70S 

 (1778), {Caspian Sea). 



Summer visitor to W. and N. W. India. 



1367- (102U) Merops apiaster. The European Bee-Eater. 



Linn., S. N., I. p. 117 (1758), (Europe). 

 N. and N. W. India, Kashmir, etc. 



