136 



MESSRS. ROBINSON AND KLOSS ON 



(Central tail feathers elongated 

 iTail square, central tail feathers 



j Head chesnut 



1 Head not chestnut . . 



I Wing 4 inches or under 

 tWing 5 inches or over 



(Larger, breast plumes elongate 

 \ Smaller, breast plumes normal 



( Breast plumes blue . . 

 I Breast plumes vermilion 



MEROPID/t 

 Bee-eaters. 



not elongated 



Merops viridis. 



M. orientalis birmamis. 

 M. fiiq)crciliosus javnuicus. 



Mclitlo!>haijn>i e. cnjtliroccphnlns. 



Nijctiornis aOicrtoni. 

 . . N. amictus. 



210. Merops viridis Linn. 



Merojys viridis, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, p. 182 (Java) ; J., p. 151 

 (Langkawi) ; 



Merops sumatranus, D., p. 69 (Patani); E., p. 109 (Patani); F., p. 37 

 (Peninsular Siam and Langkawi) ; IT., p. 92,142 (Pandoii, Koh 

 Samui and Koh Pennan). 



2 S, 9. Koh Lak, S. W. Siam, 2-4 April 1919 (Nos. 4948, 

 5010, 5019). 



" Iris carmine ; bill black ; feet browinsh black." 



Total length 6, 286, 302 ; 9, 258 ; wmg.J, 110, 112 ; 9, 108 ; 

 tail (middle feathers) d, 165, 142 ; 9, 130 ; tail (outer feathers) d, — , 



; 9, 80; tarsus 6, 12, 11; 9, 11; bill from gape d, 45, 44; 9, 44 



mm. 



Mr. W. J. F. Williamson has examples from Clmmporn and 

 Bangtaphan. 



It is curious that this bird should, so far as is known to 

 date, not occur in Tenasserim, while it is found on the other side of 

 the range at the above locality and also in Eastern Siam and French 

 Indo-China. The species is, at all events, partially migratory, but 

 less so than M. javanicus, though in the more southern parts of its 

 range it may be met with thi-oughoub the year. 



A. Humn & Davison, Stray Feathers, vi, 1878. E- O. Grant, Fasciculi Malayenscs, iii (Birds\ 1905. 



B. Mullcr, DieOrnis dcr Jnsol Salansa, 188-2. F. Kohinson and Kliiss. Itiis, 1910-H. 



C. Oales, Birds Brit. Biirniah, Vuls. i & ii, 1883. G. (iairdncr, .lourn. N. H. Soe. Siam, i, 1915. 



D. Bonhoto, P. Z. S. 1901, Vul. i. H. Kobinson, Journ. F. M,S. Miisuums, v, 1915. 



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