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Melittophagus pusillus sharpei Hartert, Novit. Zool. 7, p. 25 (1900). 
Fig. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. 17, pl. 1. f. 3 (1892): Wittlitz, Kupfertafeln VGgel, pl. 7, f. 2 
(1832) (head). 
Hab. East Africa, from the Zanzibar district (Pangani) north to Shoa (South Eastern Athiopia, Hawash, 
North Somaliland). 
5. Melittophagus variegatus variegatus (Vieillot). (Plate, Figs. 6, 6a ) 
Merops variegatus Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat. Vol. 14, p. 25 (1817) (Malimbe); cf. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. Vol. 17, p. 48 (1892). 
Melittophagus sonnini Boie, Isis 1828, p. 316 (ex Levaillant, « Molymbe »). 
Melittophagus cyanipectus Verreaux, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1851. p. 269 (Gaboon). 
Fig. notab. Levaillant, Hist. Nat. Guép. pl. 7 (1807); Dresser, Monogr. Merop. pl. 24 (1885); Journ. 
f. Ornith. pl. ro (1905). 
Hab. West Africa, from Gaboon to Angola, extending eastwards into Equatorial Africa (Victoria, Nyanza, 
Uganda). 
6. Melittophagus variegatus lafresnayei Guérin. 
Merops lafresnayer Guerin, Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 322 (Abyssinie); cf. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol.17, p 49 (1892). 
Merops lefeburii Des Murs, ibidem, 1846, p. 243 (Abyssinia, provincia Chirensi). 
Fig. notab. Wittlitz, Kupfertafeln V6gel, pl. 7 (1832); Des Murs, in Lefebvre, Voy. Abyss. pl. 5 (1845); 
Guerin, in Ferret & Galinier, Voy. Abyss. Vol. 3, pl. 15(1847) ; Dresser, Monogr. Merop. pl. 23 (1884). 
Hab. North-eastern Africa, from Abyssinia to Shoa. 
. Melittophagus variegatus oreobates Sharpe. 
Meliottophagus oreobates Sharpe, The Ibis 1892, p. 320 (Mount Elgon). 
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Fig. Journ. f. Ornith. 1905, pl. ro. 
Hab. Mountain forests 1) of German- and British East Africa (Elgon, Toro, Kagera, Kilimandjaro, 
Massai). 
. Melittophagus gularis gularis (Sharpe & Nodder). ; 
Merops gularis Shaw & Nodder, Nat. Miscell. Vol. 9, p. 337 (1798) (Sierra Leone); cf. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. Vol 17, p. 50 (1892). 
Fig. notab. Shaw & Nodder, Nat. Miscell. Vol. 9, pl. 337 (1798); Shaw, Gen. Zool. Vol. 8, pl. 23 (1811) ; 
Gray, Gen. of Birds, Vol. 1, pl. 30 (1846); Dresser, Monogr. Merop. pls. 28, 29 (1885). 
Hab. West Africa (Upper Guinea), from Sierra Leone to the Gold Coast. 
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g. Melittophagus gularis australis (Reichenow). (Plate, Fig. 3.) 
Meropiscus gularis australis Reichenow, Journ. f. Ornith. 1885, p. 222 (Angola, Congo). 
Melittophagus gularis gabonensis Forbes & Robinson 2), Bull. Liverpool Mus. Vol. 2, p. 30 (x899) (Gaboon). 
Hab. West Africa (Lower Guinea), eee Cameroons to Angola /Cuango River), and eastwards to the 
Semliki River. 
10. Melittophagus leschenaulti leschenaulti (Vieillot). 
Merops leschenaulti Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat. Vol. 14, p. 17 (1817) (ex Levaillant : Java); cf. Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. 17, p. 55 (1892). 
Merops urica Horsfield, Trans, Linn. Soc. Lond. Vol. 13, p. 172 (1821) (Java). 
Merops quinticoloy Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat. Vol. 14, p. 21 (1817) (ex Levaillant : ile de Ceylan [loc. erron.}). 
Fig. Dresser, Monogr. Merop. pl. 27 (1885). 
Hab. Confined to Java. 
1. Melittophagus leschenaulti swinhoei (Hume). 
Merops swinhoei Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. Birds, p. 102 (1873) (India); cf. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
Vol. 17. p. 55 (1892). 
1) It can not yet be decided, whether the « Formenkreis» M. variegatus is really distinct from M. pusillus or whether 
the various races of vayiegatus are merely subspecies of pusillus. 
2) Specimens from Gaboon and from the Cameroons, as a rule, seem to have the superciliary stripe clearer. 
