632 Birds in the Museum of the Asiatic Society. [No. 1 16. 



9. Merops Castaneus. Chesnut Bee-eater. 



From the Chinese collection. Chesnut Bee-eater, Latham Gen. Hist. 

 4,144, Senegal Bee-eater. Shaw. Gen. Zool. VIII. 163. 

 Guepier D'Adanson, Diet. Class. D'Hist. Nat. VII. 579. 



10. Merops ? Bee-eater. 



From the Chinese collection, perhaps the female of the last specimen. 



11. Fam. HiRUNDiNiD^. 

 Genus Cypselus. 



Sp. C. Palmaruniy the Balearic Swift. 

 Shot by the Curator, and mounted in the Museum. 

 Figured in Hardwicke and Gray. 



12. Fam. Caprimulgid^. 

 > Sp. C. Asiaticus. 



Bombay Goat-sucker. 

 From the Chinese collection. Caprimulgus AsiaticuSy Turton's Lin. 

 I. 636. Shaw. Gen. Zool. X. 156. 



Bombay Goat-sucker, Latham. Gen. Hist. VII, 337. 

 Engoulevent de Bombay , Diet. Class. D'Hist. Nat. VI. 167. 



13. Fam. ToDiDiE. 

 Genus Eurystomus. 

 Sp. Eur. Orientalis, Oriental Eurystomus. 

 From the Chinese collection. Coracias Orientalis, Shaw. Gen. 

 Zool. VII. 403, Latham. Gen. Hist. IIL 77. 

 Colaris Orietitalis, Lin. Trans. XIII. 162. 



15. Fam. Halcyonid^. 



Genus Halcyon. 



Sp. II. Atricapilla. Black-capped Kingfisher. 



From the Chinese collection. Alcedo Atricapilla. Gmelin. Syst. 



Nat. I. 453. Turton. Lin. I. 279. Latham. Gen. Hist. IV. 30. Shaw. 



Gen. Zool. VIII. 70. 



Martin Pecheur de la Chine, Diet. Class. D'Hist. Nat. X. 227. 



Halcyon Atricapillus. Stephens, XIII. 99. 



15. b. Another specimen from the Chinese collection. 





