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12. Forehead, eyebrow and cheek stripe blue, head above light green Te 
= Hovehead meyeUKOwmanmichecr stripe cumilenmnedd aboverOVOwiuNs | ee) een eer. 
13. Colour of head and back contrasted with colour of throat and jugulum . ML. SUPERCIILOSUS SUPERCILIOSUS. 
— Colour of head and back scarcely different fyvom that of throat and foreneck, 
DO? NOMS INH, 5 5 2 9 6 8 09 6 © 5» 5 4 2 co 5 Wis SURIREGILIOSUS DONALDSONI. 
14. General colour above grass-green oy washed with blue . . . . M. SUPERCILIOSUS PERSICUS. 
— General colour above more yellowish green, the central rectrices more 
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16. Head brown, washed with yellowish green . . De eV aviRiDrsiviRins! 
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17. Upper throat green or yellowish green. . . . . . . . . . . M2. VIRIDIS VIRIDISSIMUS. 
— Upper throat greenish yellow ov chrom-yellow . . . . . . . . M. viRIDIS REICHENOWI. 
18. Entive forehead and a broad eyebrow deepblue . . . . . . . . Mz. vrripis cyANOPHRYS. 
— A narrow line at the base of the forchead and a narrow eyebrow blue. . MM. vixtnIS MUSCATENSIS. 
19. Back crimson-pink ; head bluish green ; lower back and rump bright cobalt 
blue Say CONV Sey Res ey cusp tin | en Wiay pee or ae 20. 
— Back dark ashy-grey with a vosy shade, chin and cheeks white . . . M. MALIMBIcus. 
20. Inhioat bliush green; breast yosy puke. . =| . - . - . = . . MM. NUBIGUS NUBIGUS. 
— Cheeks and under surface of body rosy pork . . . . . . . . +. M~. NUBICUS NUBICOIDES. 
1. Merops muelleri muelleri (Cassin). (Plate, Fig. 4.) 
Meropiscus muelleri Cassin, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1857, p. 37 (Muni-river); cf. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. Vol. 17, p. 59 (1892). 
Merops batestana Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. 10, p. 48 (1g00) (French Congo). 
Fig. notab. Cassin, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. (2), Vol. 4, pl. 49, f. 2 (1860). 
Hab. West Africa, from the Southern and Eastern Cameroons to Gaboon (Jaunde, Barombi, Bonge, 
Benito, Muni, River Ja). 
2. Merops muelleri mentalis Cabanis. 
Merops mentalis Cabanis, Journ. f. Ornith. 1889, p. 78 (Kamerun). ; 
Merops marionis Alexander, Bull. Brit Ornith. Club, Vol. 13, p. 33 (1903). (Bakaki | Fernando Po)). 
Merops northcotti Sharpe, ibidem, Vol. 10, p. 49 (1900) (Gold Coast). 
Fig. Dresser, Monogr. Merop. pl. 30 (1885). 
Hab. West Africa, from the forests of the Gold Coast to the Sanaga river; mountainous districts of the 
Cameroons (Fantee, Lake Barombi, Bibundi); Fernando Po. 
3. Merops apiaster Linnzus. (Plate, Figs. 1, la, 1b.) 
Merops apiastey Linnzeus, Syst. Nat. Vol. 1, p. 182 (1776) (« Europa australi, Oriente »); cf. Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. Vol. 17, p. 63 (1892). 
Merops congener Linneeus, Syst. Nat. Vol. 1, p. 183 (1766) WS Europa australi »). 
Merops apiarius Stephens, in Shaw, Gen. Zool. Vol. 13, Pt. 2, p. 73 (1825) (« Britain » etc.). 
Merops huugariae Brehm, Vox. Deutschl. p. 146 (1831) ( (Unger. 
Merops elegans Brehm, Vovellfang, p. 50 (1855). 
Fig. notab. Albin. Nat. Hist. Birds. Vol. 2, pl. 44 Cee Montbeillard, Hist. Nat. Ois. Vol. 6, p. 23 
(1779); Levaillant, Hist. Nat. Parad. et Guép. ae 3, pls. 1, 2 (1807); Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. 
Vol. 5, pl. 143 (1826); Werner, Atl. Alcyons, pl. 2 (econ Gould, Birds Europ. Vol. 2. p. 59 (1837); 
Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pl. 70 f. 1 (1856); Fritsch, V6g. Europ. pl. 14, f. 3 (1870); Dresser, 
Monogr. Merop. pl. 18 (1884); Birds Europ. pl. 295 (1877); Naumann, Nature. Vogel. Mitteleur. 
Vol. 4, pl. 37. 
Hab. Southern Europe, extending to Central Asia, north to the Altai-mountains, south to the North-west 
Provinces of India, occurring in winter throughout the whole of Africa; it is also said to breed on 
the Cape of Good Hope and is common as a summer migrant in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. 
