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DICROCERCUS 



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409. Dicrocercus hirundineus. Swallow-tailed Bee- Eater. 



Merops hirundineus, Lichtenstein, Cat. rer. nat. rariss. p. 21 (1793). 

 Merops hirundinaceus, Vieill. N. Diet. H. N. xiv, p. 21 (1817) ; Layard, 



B. S. Afr. p. 70 (1867) ; id. Ibis, 1869, p. 72. 

 Dicrocercus hirundinaceus, Gurney in Anderssoris B. Damaraland, 



p. 63 (1872) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 101, 805 (1875-84) ; 



Ayres, Ibis, 1878, p. 285 [Potchefstroom] ; Oates, Matabeleland, 



p. 302 (1881) ; Holub <& Pelzeln, Orn. Siid-AfriMs, p. 66 (1882) ; 



Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 247 [Salisbury]. 

 Dicrocercus hirundineus, Dresser, Monogr. Merop. p. 99, pi. 22 (1884) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xvii, p. 43, pi. i, fig. 1 (1892) ; Shelleij, B. Afr. 



i, p. 110 ; Sowerty, Ibis, 1898, p. 571 [Fort Chiquaqua]. 



FIG. 25. Tail of Dicrocercus hirundineus. x |. 



Description. Male. Above, a bright golden-green ; primaries 



and inner secondaries a faint chestnut edged with green and tipped 



with black ; rump and upper tail-coverts cobalt-blue, tail-feathers 



a little duller blue, the outer ones slightly washed with green, all 



5 VOL. in. 



