ORNITHOLOGY. 



PLATE CXXVIII. 



MEROPS NUBICUS 

 NUBIAN BEE-EATER 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill curved, quadrangular, compressed carinated, pointed: 

 nostrils small, at the base of the bill : tongue slender, the tip 

 generally jagged ; feet gressorial. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Red, head, throat, and rump blue green ; tail somewhat forked. 



Merops Nubicus : ex ceruleo viridis subtus ruber, dorso, alis 

 caudaque furcata lateritiis. GmeL Linn, Syst, 

 NaL t.l. p. 464. 14. 



Merops CiERULEOCEPHALUS : ruber capite gulo, uropygioque 

 caeruleo-viridis, cauda subforcipata. Latlu Ind. 

 Orn. 1. 14. 



Blue-headed Bee-Eater : Lath. Syn, 11, 680. 13. 



