ITPUPID^E.— -MEROFID.*. 
Family UPUPIDiE. 
Genus UPUPA IJnn, 
Upupa epops Linn, Hoopoe, 
jUpupa epops epops Linn. 
Upupa epos Linn., Syist. Nat. toth ed. 175s, p. 117 : Sweden. 
Distr . — Extra-limital.] 
Upupa cpopt saturata Lonn. 
Upupa epops saturata Lonnberg, Arkiv. f. Zool. v, 1909, p. 29 ; 
Mongolia, 
Distr . — Malay States.' 
t Borneo. 
Upupa epops longirostris Jerd. 
Upupa longirostris Jerdon, Birds of India, i t 1862, p. 593 : Burma. 
Distr. — Malay Peninsula. 
Sumatra. 
Family MEROPID^E. 
Genus MEROPS Linn. 
Merops leschenaulti 1 2 3 Vieill. Bay-headed Bee-eater. 
Merops leschenaulti leschenaulti Vieill. 
Merops leschenaulti Vieillot, Nov. Diet. d’Hist. Nat, xiv, 1817, 
p. 17: Java, error = Ceylon. 
Distr. — Malay Peninsula. 
Sumatra.® 
Merops leschenaulti quint [color Vieill. 
Merops quinticolor Vieillot, Nov. Diet. d’Hist. Nat, xiv, 1817, p. 
2i : Ceylon, error = Java. 
Merops urtca Horsh, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, 1821, p. 172 : Java. 
Distr. — Java; Bali, 
1 Also occurs in South-west Siam and therefore almost certainly in 
Peninsular Siam. See Kozlova, Ibis, 1932, p. 5&0. 
3 Merops erythrocephatus Gmel. has been used for this species, but see 
Whistler, Joum. Bomb, Nat. Hist. Soc. xxxvii, 1935, p, 75S. 
3 Dr. W. L. Abbott considers that he saw this species on Simalur Island, 
West Sumatra. 
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