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to. The forehead and a broad superciliary stripe bright cobalt-blue 
like the rump, the back glossy greenish black. . . . . . M. GULARIS GULARIS. 
— The tips to the frontal feathers and an indistinct superciliary stripe 
dull bluish green, the blue stripes of the breast mixed with red ; 
the black of the back deeper. . . . . . . . . ~ « M. GULARIS AUSTRALIS. 
tr. Throat yellow, with a black band across the foreneck ; crown, nape 
and wniterscapulary mecion: DuiaiLt Gestalt Ved) ee.) ee es 
=! Throat white oncrimson %.- 8 OB ee eee te ee As eee eee ne te 
12. With a shade of chestnut preceeding the black bay on the foreneck. MM. LESCHENAULTI SWINHOEI. 
— No chestnut on the lower throat . . . . . . . . . . M. LESCHENAULTI LESCHENAULTI. 
13. Throat and cheeks white, breast pale fawn-colour, a blue eyebrow. M. REVOILIL. 
GUS CUNO DOUG 8 Oe 8 8 8 o A a o 6 6 6 & F 6 5 5 HL 
14. Of smaller size, wing gS-105 mm. ; chin crimson, upper tarl-coverts 
Ay UATE OTOAD TOUEE G 
— Of larger size, wing 110-123 mm.; chin, a cheek stripe and the 
forehead whitish, upper tail-coverts deep cobalt-blue, tail green 
wihiolacks, 2 4. os). & 3 se ee eee > ee ME BURHOCKIBULTOGKomDESS 
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_A narrow blue line across the base of the forehead, a blue streak 
both below and above the eve and a cheeh-stripe of brighter blue 
below the black ear-coverts . . . . . . . =. +. . +. M. BULLOCKI FRENATUS. 
— No blue on eyebrow or cheek-stripe . . . . . . . . . M. BULLOCKI BULLOCKI. 
1. Melittophagus pusillus pusillus (P. L. S. Miller). 
Merops pusillus P. L. S. Muller, Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 95 (1776) (ex Buffon : Senegal); cf. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. Vol. 17, p 47 (1892). 
Muscicapa bicolor Boddaert, Tabl. Pl, Enl. p. 19 (1783) (ex Daubenton). 
Merops eryihropterus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Vol. 1, p 464 (1788) (« ad fluv. Senegal »). 
Merops collaris Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat. Vol. 14, p. 16 (1817) (Senegal). 
Merops minutus Bonnaterre & Vieillot, Encycl. Méthod. Vol. 1, p. 392 (1823) (ex Levaillant : Senegal et « grande 
partie de |’Afrique meridionale »). 
Merops minulus Cuvier, Régne Anim. Vol. 1, p. 442 (1829) (ex Levaillant, same locality). ; 
Fig. Daubenton, P]. Enl. p. 318; Levaillant, Hist. Nat Guép. p. 53, no. 17 (1807); Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. Vol. 17, pl. 1, f. 5; Dresser, Monogr. Merop. pl. 25 (1885, pt.). 
Hab. West Africa, from Senegambia to the Cameroons. 
2. Melittophagus pusillus ocularis Reichenow. 
Melittophagus pusillus ocularits Reichenow, Ornith. Monatsber. 1900, p. 86 (« Nordost-Afrika, von Nubien bis in das 
Gebiet des Gazellen-Flusses »). 
Fig. Dresser, Monogr. Merop. pl. 25; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. 17, pl. 1, f. 5 (1892) (head) 
sub-nom. : WM. pusillus. 
Hab. North-eastern Africa, from Nubia to the Gazelle-River (Nubia, Eritrea, Danakil-coast, Abyssinia, 
Sudan); West Africa? 
3. Melittophagus pusillus meridionalis Sharpe. 
Melittophagus meridionalis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. 17, p. 45 (1892). 
? Merops angolensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Vol. 1, p. 463 (1788) (Angola). 
Fig. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. 17, pl. 1, f. 4 (1892) (head). 
Hab. South-eastern Africa, from Natal to British East Africa (Uganda) and to Angola and the Lower 
Congo on the west; river Gambia (Brit. Mus.) [doubtful]. 
4. Melittophagus pusillus cyanostictus Cabanis. 
Melittophagus cyanostictus Cabanis, von der Decken’s Reisen O, Afr. Vol. 3, p. 34 (1869); Journ. f. Ornith. 1875 
p- 340 (« Mombas, Ost-Afrika »); cf. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol.'17, p. 48 (1892). 
