72 FISSIROSTRES DIURN2E. 



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



Merops Bullockii Vieill. N. Diet. 6^ Hist. 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 BULLOCKOIDES. 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, ofB.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 Swains. 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 caerulea Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 333. 



Merops Athertoni Jard. Sf Selly, 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. 24. 



f. 1, 2. 25. 



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



b. Himalayah Mountains. 



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



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



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



