INHABITING THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO. ^ 149 



TROGONID./E. 



Harpactes, Swainson. 



34. * Harpactes ardens. 



Trogon ardens, Temm. PI. Col. 404, ?, "Mindanao" (1836). 



Harpactes rhodiosternus, Peale, Un. St. Expl. Exped. Zool. p. 166, cJ, " near Zamboanga" (1848). 



Pyrotrogon ardens (Temm.), Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygydactyl. p. 14 (1854). 



Harpactes ardens (Temm.), Gould, Trogonidee, pi. 35. 



Hob. Luzon, 6 , Januaiy {Meyer) ; Mindanao (Peale). 



Temminck's title was founded on an example of a female from Mindanao, that given 

 by Peale on a male from the same island. This Luzon male agrees perfectly with 

 Peale's description. 



MEROPID^. 



Mekops, Linnaeus, . 



35. Merops philippinus. 



Apiaster philippensis major, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 560, no. 12, pi. 43. f. 1, " ex Philippensibus ins.," descr. 



orig. (1760). 

 Merops philippinus, Linn. S. N. ed. xiii. (Vindob.), i. p. 183, no. 5 (1767), ex Briss. 

 Grand Guepier des Philippines, D'Aubent. PL Enl. 57. 



Le Gtiepier vert a queue d'azur, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 504, "Philippines." 

 Le Guepier daudin, Le VaUlant, Hist. Nat. Guep. p. 49, pi. 14, "Philippines." 

 Merops daudini, Cuv. R. A. i. p. 442 (1829), ex Le Vaillant. 

 Merops javanicus, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 171, "Java" (1820). 

 Merops typicus, Hodgs., Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82, "Nipaul" [descr. nulla) (1844). 

 Merops cyanorrhos, Temm. Mus. jM.gA..,fide Bp. Consp. i. p. 162. 



Merops savignyi, Cuv., v. Kittlitz, Lutke, Voy. (Postels) iii. p. 327, " Lufon," nee Cuv. 

 Merops savignyoides, in Mus. Massen., fide Cab. Mus. Hein. i. pt. 2, p. 139. 

 Merops daudini, Cuv., Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 348, no. 81, "Swatow." 

 Merops philippinus et daudini, G. R. Gray, Hand-list, nos. 1207, 1208. 



Hah. Luzon, February ; Negros, March [Ileyer). 



Brisson [1. c.) 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 

 Linnsean diagnosis " cauda sequali." D'Aubenton's plate [1. c.) represents a uniformly 

 dark green bird, with a bright blue rump and tail ; the rectrices are even. Le Vaillant 

 {I. c.) 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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