72 FISSIROSTRES DIURN2E. 



4. MELITTOPHAGUS BULLOCKII. Bullock's Bee-eater. 



Merops Bullockii Vieill. N. Diet. tfHist. Nat. xiv. p. 13. 

 Merops cyanogaster Swains. B. of W. Afr. pi. 8. 

 Melittophagus Bullockii G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 



Levaill. Hist. Nat. Guep. t. 20.; Donov. Nat. Repos. pi. 45. 

 a. South Africa. From the South African Museum. 



5. MELITTOPHAGUS BULLOCKOLDES. The white-fronted Bee-eater. 



Merops Bullocko'ides A. Smith, South Afric. Quart. Journ. (1834) 



p. .; Illustr. Zool S. Afr. Birds, pi. 9. 

 Melittophagus Bullocko'ides G. R. Gray, Gen, of B. p. 

 a. South Africa. From the South African Museum. 



6. MELITTOPHAGUS GULARIS. The red-throated Bee-eater. 



Merops gularis Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. 337. 

 Melittophagus gularis G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 

 G R. Gray and Mitch. Gen. of B. pi. 30. 

 a. Western Africa. From Mr. Argent's Collection. 



3. NYCTIORNIS. 



Nyctiornis Sivains. Zool. Illustr. N. S. (1831). 

 Alcemerops J. Geoff. Mem. du Mus. (1832). 

 Bucia Hodgs. Journ. A. S. B (1836) p. 360. 

 Napophila Hodgs. Journ. A. S. B. (1841) p. 29. 



1. NYCTIORNIS ATHERTONI. The azure-throated Bee-eater. 



Nyctiornis cserulea Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 333. 



Merops Athertoni Jard. $ Selby, 111. Orn. pi. 58. 



Nyctiornis Athertoni Hodgs. Cat. Mam. and Birds of Nepal, Brit. 



"Mus. p. 58. 



Bucia nipalensis Hodgs. Journ. A. S. B. (1836) p. 36/ 

 Napophila meropina Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Misc. (1844) p. 82. 

 Bucia Athertonii Blyth, Journ. A. S. B. (1841) p. 922. 

 Merops ? cyanogularis Jerd. Madr. J. Lit. and Sci. (1840) p. 229. 

 Napophila Athertonii Blyth, Journ. A. S. B. (1842) p. 104. 

 Nyctiornis Amherstianus Royle. 



Hardw. Icon. ined. 10979. 89. 91.; Hodgs. Icon. ined. Pass. 2 



f. 1, 2. 25. J 



a. India. Presented by J. E. Reeves, Esq. 



b. Himalayan Mountains. 



c e. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



/. ? Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



g. Sternum, Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



