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CATALOGUE OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
1. Merops apiaster. The common Bee-eater. 
Merops apiaster, Linn. S. N, i. p. 182; Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1815, 
p. 260 ; Brehm^ Dents, i. p. 147 ; Flem. Brit. An. p. 90 ; 
Jenyns., Man. B. Vert. An. p. 156; Naum. Vog. Dents. 
V. p. 462, t. 143 ; Macgill. Hist, Brit. B. iii. p. 685 ; Egton^ Cat. 
Brit. B. p. 28 ; Pr. Bonap, Geogr. Comp. List of p. 9 ; Keys. 
^ Bl. Wirhelth. Eur. p. 35 ; Schleg. Rev. Crit. des Ois. dHur. p. 
52 ; G. R. Gray., Gen. of B. i. p. 86. 
Merops chrysocephalus, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 463. 
Merops schagghagha, Forsk. Faun. Arab. 1, 
Merops bungaiiae, Brehm., Vdg. Dents, i. p. 146, t. xi. f, 1. 
Bee-eater, Mont. Orn. Diet. : Yarr. Brit. B. 2 edit. ii. p. 217, fig. 
Common Bee-eater, Penn. Brit. Zool. (1812) i. p. 339 ; Selby, Orn. 
Diet. i. p. 123. 
PI. enl. 938 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 59. 
a. . Presented by Maj.-Gen. T. Hardwiche, 
h. Devonshire. Presented by Addis Archer, Esq. 
Tribe II. TENUIROSTRES. 
Picae, pt. Linn. 1735; Mcehr. (1752); Lath. (1790). 
Plumipedes, pt. Schoeff. (1774). 
Eissipedes anisodactyles, cuneirostres — F. a. hlirostres — F. a. falci- 
rostres, Schceff. (1774). 
Scutipedes, pt. — Negliges, pt. Scop. (1777). 
Teimirostres, pt.^ — Dentirostres, pt. — Plenirostres, pt. Cuv. (1799-~ 
1800). 
Tenuirostres — Gregarii, pt. — Pygarrhichi — Suspensi — Gallinacei, 
pt. Illiger (1811). 
Aiithomysi — Epopsides — Anerpontes—Lyriferi, VieilL (1816). 
Scansores, pt. Temm. (1815). 
Tenuirostres— 'Conirostres, pt. — Dentirostres, pt, Cuv. (1817). 
Anisodactyli — Insectivores, pt. Temm. (1820). 
Anerponti — Antomisi— Epopsidi — Rafioramfi — Metrioramfi, Ranz. 
(1823). 
Tenuirostres — Scansores, pt. — Kasores, pt. Vigors (1826). 
Fissirostres, conirostres anisodactyles, pt. Less. (1831). 
Tenuirostres — Anthomyzi — Canori, pt. Pr. Bonap. (1831). 
Scansores, pt. — Oscines, pt. Keys. ^ Bl. (1840). 
Raptatrices, Macgill. (1840). 
Ciaraatores, pt. — Oscines, pt. Cahanis (1847). 
