316 ON THE BIRDS rNHABITING [1875. 



Tr. Z. S. ix. TROGONID.^. 



p. 149. 



Haepactes, Svvainson. 



34. *Hakpactes ardens. 



Trogon ardens, Temm. PI. Col. 404, ? , Mindanao" (1826). 



Earjictdes rhodiosternus, Teale, Un. St. Expl. Exped. Zool. p. 1C6, d , " near Zamboanga " 



(1848). 



Pyrotrogon ardens (Temm.), Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygodactyl. p. 14 (1854). 

 Harpactes ardens (Temm.), Gould, Trogonidse, pi. 35. 



Ilai. Luzon, d , January [Meyer) ; Mindanao (Peale). 



Temminck's title was founded on an example of a female from Mindanao, that given by 

 Peale on a male fi-om the same island. This Luzon male agrees perfectly with Peale's description. 



MEEOPID.E. 



Merops, Linnaeus. 



35. Meeops philippinus. 



Ajpiaster phUippensis major, Briss. Orn. iv. p. uCO, no. 12, pi. 43. f. 1, "ex Philippensibus 

 ins.," descr. orig. (1760). 



Merops pMUppiniis, Linn. S. N. ed. xiii. (Vindob.), i. p. 183, no. 5 (1767), ex Briss. 



Grand Otiepier des Philippines, D'Aubent. PI. Enl. 57. 



Le Guepier vert a queue d'azur, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 504, " Philippines." 



Le Guepier daudin, Le Vaillant, Hist. Nat. Guep. p. 49, pi. 14, " Philippines." 



Merops daudini, Cuv. R. A. i. p. 442 (1829), ex Le Vaillant. 



Merops javanicus, Horsf Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 171, "Java" (1820). 



Merops typicus, Hodgs., Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82, " Nipaul " (descr. nulla) (1844), 



Merops cyanorrhos, Temm. Mus. Lugd.,j/?f7e Bp. Consp. i. p. 162. 



Merops savignyi, Cuv., v. Kittlitz, Lutke, Voy. (Postels) iii. p. 327, " Lueon," nee Cuv. 



Merops savignyoides, in Mus. Massen.,/'(^?e Cab. Mus. Hein. i. pt. 2, p. 139. 



Merops daudini, Cuv., Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 348, no. 81, "Swatow." 



Merops pMlipipinus et daudini, G. R. Gray, Hand-list, nos. 1207, 1208. 



Hal. Luzon, February ; Negros, March [Meyer). 



Brisson (/. c.) gave a fairly accurate description of this Bee-eater from a specimen in the 

 collection of Madame de Bandeville. But the type seems to have been immature ; for Brisson does 

 not mention the pale blue subocular stripe and the elongated middle pair of rectrices. In the 

 plate the tail is depicted as being truncate ; and hence the imperfect Linna^an diagnosis " cauda 

 sequali." D'Aubenton's plate (/. c.) represents a uniformly dark green bird, with a bright blue 

 rump and tail; the rectrices are even. Le Vaillant (/. c.) is severe on Buffbn, and criticises both 

 plate and description, suggesting that Buifon had described from his bad plate instead of from 

 the bu-d itself The description seems, in fact, to have been taken and the figure coloured from 



