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All the specimens in Mr. Jesse’s collection, killed in June and July, are young birds 
in moulting-plumage. The feathers on the back are in some specimens margined with 
dull blue, as well as the outer web of the quills and tail-feathers in other specimens ; 
the chin and throat is in most of the specimens washed with yellow, the black jugular 
collar indicated only by some dark-greenish-margined feathers; the two middle elon- 
gated tail-feathers are wanting, and all only partially developed in the specimen f. 
Some specimens have the head and neck mixed with faded-fulvous-brownish feathers ; 
the black stripe through the eye shows underneath more or less a narrow light blue 
margin.—0. F. 
[Iris brown. 
Out of five specimens procured at Zoulla in June, the one here noted, as also another 
not marked, had the iris brown; the rest were crimson. Possibly in birds of the year 
the iris does not reach its full colour. They were procured in the mangrove-belts by 
the shore: some had long tail-feathers; but the generality had not; they were all more 
or less moulting. I killed this species at Zoulla on my arrival at the end of February, 
though I have no skin of that date. Did not meet with it elsewhere.—W. J.] 
44, MEROPS LAFRESNAYEI, Guér. 
Merops lafresnayei, Guér. Rey. Zool. 1843, p. 322; id. in Ferret & Galinier, Voy. en Abyss. Atlas, t. 15. 
— lefebvrii, Des Murs. 
variegatus, Kittl. Kupfert, t. 7. f. 3; Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 24. no. 100; Heugl. Syst. 
Uebers. no. 143. 
lafresnayi, Heugl. Fauna d. Roth, Meer. no, 48; Brehm, Habesch, p. 210. no. 35; Finsch & 
Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 192 (Anm.). 
a. 3. Senafé. May 12 (no. 831). 
6, 3. Senafé. May 12 (no. 1216). 
c. Sooroo. April 5 (no. 191). 
[Ivis crimson; beak black; legs and feet greyish stone-colour. 
This Bee-eater was common up the pass from Sooroo to Senafé during April and 
May.—W. J.] 
45. Merops MINvTVvs, Vieill. 
Merops collaris, Kittl. Kupfert, t. 7. f. 2. 
—— erythropterus, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 24. no. 99; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 142; id. Fauna des 
Roth. Meer. no. 47. 
minutus, Finsch & Hartl. Vogel. Ostafr. p. 188. no. 84. 
a. 3. Bejook. July 14 (no. 1524). 
b Bejook. July 13. 
[Iris crimson; beak black ; legs and feet black. 
I procured only two specimens of this species at Bejook, on the Anseba, and did not 
observe it elsewhere on my trip.—W. J. 
