INHABITING THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO. ~* 149 
TROGONID#. 
Harpactes, Swainson. 
34, * HARPACTES ARDENS. 
Trogon ardens, Temm. PI. Col. 404, 2, “ Mindanao ” (1826). 
’ Harpactes rhodiosternus, Peale, Un. St. Expl. Exped. Zool. p. 166, 3, “ near Zamboanga” (1848). 
Pyrotrogon ardens (Temm.), Bp. Consp. Voluecr. Zygydactyl. p. 14 (1854). 
Harpactes ardens (Temm.), Gould, Trogonide, pl. 35. 
Hab. Luzon, ¢, January (Weyer); Mindanao (Peale). 
Temminck’s title was founded on an example of a female from Mindanao, that given 
by Peale ona male from the same island. This Luzon male agrees perfectly with 
Peale’s description. 
MEROPID&. 
Menrors, Linnzus, 
39. MEROPS PHILIPPINUS. ° 
Apiaster philippensis major, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 560, no, 12, pl. 43. f. 1, “ ex Philippensibus ins.,”’ descr. 
orig. (1760). : 
Merops philippinus, Linn. 8. N. ed. xiti. (Vindob.), i. p. 183, no. 5 (1767), ex Briss. 
Grand Guépier des Philippines, D’Aubent. Pl. Enl. 57. 
Le Guépier vert a queue d’azur, Montb., Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 504, “ Philippines.” 
Le Guépier daudin, Le Vaillant, Hist. Nat. Guép. p. 49, pl. 14, ‘ Philippines.” 
Merops daudini, Cuv. R. A. i. p. 442 (1829), ex Le Vaillant. 
Merops javanicus, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soe. xiii. p. 171, “ Java” (1820). 
Merops typicus, Hodgs., Gray’s Zool. Mise. p. 82, “ Nipaul” (descr. nulla) (1844). 
Merops cyanorrhos, Temm. Mus. Lugd., fide Bp. Consp. i. p. 162. 
Merops savignyi, Cuy., vy. Kittlitz, Lutké, Voy, (Postels) iii. p. 327, “ Lucgon,” nec Cuv. 
Merops savignyoides, in Mus. Massen., fide Cab. Mus. Hein. i. pt. 2, p. 139. 
Merops daudini, Cuy., Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 348, no. 81, “ Swatow.” 
Merops philippinus et daudini, G. R. Gray, Hand-list, nos. 1207, 1208. 
Hab. Luzon, February ; Negros, March (Heyer). 
Brisson (J. ¢.) 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 
Linnean diagnosis “ cauda zquali.” D’Aubenton’s plate (/. c.) represents a uniformly . 
dark green bird, with a bright blue rump and tail; the rectricesare even. Le Vaillant 
(J.¢.) is severe on Buffon, and criticises both plate and description, suggesting that Buffon 
had described from his bad plate instead of from the bird itself. The description seems, 
in fact, to have been taken and the figure coloured from the account given by Brisson, 
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