110 NILS GYLDENSTOLPE, ZOOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITIONS TO SIAM. 
Fam. Meropide. 
212. Melittophagus leschenaulti swinhoei. Hume. — The Chestnut-headed Bee-eater. 
Melittophagus swinhoei: Gyldenstolpe I p. 53; Gyldenstolpe II; Gyldenstolpe III p. 231; Oustalet 1899 p. 292; 
Grant p. 109; Robinson & Kloss p. 36; Robinson I p. 92; Robingon III p. 734. 
oS Meh Lua 7/s 1914. L= 200 mm.; W=101 mm.; T = 81 mm.; C = 28 mm. — & Ban Meh Na 
24/5 1914. L = 203 mm.; W = 106 mm.; T= 79,2 mm.; C == 30 mm. — Irides: red. Bill: black. Legs: black. 
The Chestnut-headed Bee-eater inhabits the well-wooded parts of Siam but it seems 
to avoid the dense evergreen jungles. It keeps to open deciduous forests and was often 
seen perching on the branches of dead trees, now and then making aerial evolutions after 
a passing insect. 
213. Merops superciliosus philippinus. Linn. -—- The Blue-tailed Bee-eater. 
Merops philippinus: Gould p. 151; Miller p. 396; Grant p. 109; Robinson & Kloss p. 37; Williamson I p. 45 
Robinson Il p. 146; Gairdner p. 150. 
© Chieng Hai 1/g 1914. L = 245 mm.; W = 121 mm.; T = 92 mm.; C = 37 mm. — Chieng Hai 
2/3 1914. L = 215 mm.; W = 119 mm.; T = 89 mm. — Irides: brownish red. Bill: black. Legs: black; 
The Blue-tailed Bee-eater was only observed at the neighbourhood of Chieng Hai 
in Upper Siam and even there it was rather rare. 
It also occurs further south, though I never observed it there, and it has been re- 
corded from Bangkok by WILLIAMSON and from Koh Samui and Koh Pennan by Ro- 
BINSON. GAIRDNER gives it from the Ratburi and Petchaburi Districts but during my 
stay in the Siamese Malaya in the Districts south of those mentioned by GAIRDNER I 
never observed it and the only kind of Bee-eater I found there was M. orientalis birmanus 
NeEvum. 
214. Merops orientalis birmanus. Neum. -- The Common Burmese Bee-eater. 
Merops orientalis birmanus: Gyldenstolpe I p. 52; Gyldenstolpe II; Gyldenstolpe HI p. 231. 
Merops viridis: Gould p. 151; Oustalet 1899 p. 293. 
@ Koh Lak "8/11 1914. L = 213 mm.; W = 90 mm.; T = 109,5 mm.; C = 25 mm. — ¢ Koon Tan 
May 1914. W = 98 mm.; T = 125 mm.; C = 25 mm. — Trides: red. Bill: black. Legs: black. 
Generally distributed over the whole country though apparently more common 
in the Southern Districts than up in the North. It goes about in small parties of about 
4 to 6 birds and seems to live exclusively in open, cultivated land. Sometimes it was 
also observed at the outskirts of the deciduous forests but never far from human habita- 
tions. In the dense evergreen forests it was never met with. 
This race inhabits Burma east to the French Indo China. 
