Birds from the White Nile. 431 
d. c?. Kaka, 17th April. No. 373. 
e. ? imm. Goz-Abu-Gumar, 16th May. No. 476. 
Iris crimson ; bill black ; legs greyish black. 
As Mr. Witherby remarks, African examples of this 
Bee-eater have the throat green or yellowish green^ whereas 
in the great majority of Indian specimens the throat is blue 
or bluish green. At the same time, he overlooks the fact 
that a number of Indian birds in the British Museum 
Collection from Sambhur, Ahmednuggur^ Chittagong, and 
various other parts of India and Burmah have the throat 
yellowish green and are indistinguishable from African 
examples. I therefore prefer to follow Dr. Sharpe in the 
' Catalogue of Birds ' and to regard all of them as belonging 
to one species, M. viridis. 
[The Green Bee-eater was by no means common. — 
B. M. H.] 
90. Merops persicus. 
Merops persicus Pall. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus, xvii. 
p. 66 (1892) ; Witherby, p. 263. 
«-e. S ? . Fashoda, 22nd March. Nos. 169-173. 
f,g. S ' Kaka, 22nd April. Nos. 387, 388. 
Iris crimson ; bill black ; legs dusky. 
[I saw one flock of the Persian Bee-eater at Fashoda, and 
a couple of birds at Kaka. — B. M. H.] 
91. Merops ALBicoLLis. 
Merops albicollis Vieill. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvii. 
p. 7Q (1892). 
a-h. S ? . Goz-Abu-Gumar, 18th May. Nos. 500-507. 
Iris crimson ; bill black ; legs pale ochreous. 
[The lovely White-throated Bee-eater was not met with 
south of Goz-Abu-Gumar. — R. M. H.] 
92. Merops nubicus. 
Merops nubicus Gmel. ; Grant, Ibis, 1901, p. 673. 
a-e, S ? • Gebel Ain, llth Feb. Nos. 51-55. 
' f. S' I^enk, 12th May. No. 468. 
Iris crimson ; bill and legs black. 
[We met with the beautiful Crimson-breasted Bee-cater 
