NYCTIORNIS ATHERTONI. 
BLUE-NECKED BEE-EATEK. 
Merops athertoni, Jardine & Selby, 111. Orn. ii. pi. 58 (1829) ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Merops, p. 12 (1863). 
Bucia nipalensis, Hodgs. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. v. p. 361 (1836 ) ; Blytb, J. As. Soc. Beng. x. p. 922 (1812). 
Nyctiornis cceruleus, Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 333 (1837). 
Nyctiornis amherstiana, Royle, 111. Himal. Bot. i. p. lxxvii (1839). 
Merops cyanogularis, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. xi. p. 229 (1840). 
Alcemerops paleazureus , Less. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 262. 
Bucia athertoni, Blyth, J. As. Soc. Beng. x. p. 922 (1841). 
Nyctiornis athertoni (Jard. & Selby), McClelland, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 155 ; Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 87 (1849); Bp. 
Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 164 (1850) ; Gonld, B. of Asia, yol. iii. pi. (1850) ; Licbt. No men cl. Av. p. 66 (1854); 
Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. E. Ind. Co. Mus. i. p. 89 (1854) ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Plein. ii. p. 132 (1859) ; 
Jerdon, B. of India, i. p. 211 (1862) ; Gray, Cat. B. Nepal, p. 58 (1863) ; Blytb, Ibis, 1866, p. 345; Beavan, 
Ibis, 1869, p. 407 ; Blanf. Ibis, 1870, p. 465 ; Hume, Nests & Eggs of Ind. B. p. 103 (1873) ; Eairbank, 
Stray Leathers, v. p. 394 (1877) ; Hume & Davison, Str. Featb. vi. p. 68 (1878) ; Anderson, Zool. Exped. 
Yunnan, i. p. 583 (1878) ; Tiraut, Bull. C. A. Coch. Cb. ser. 3, vol. i. p. 98 (1879) ; Bingham, Str. Feath. 
ix. p. 153 (1880) ; Butler, Str. Featb. ix. p. 382 (1880) ; Oates, B. of Brit. Burra, ii. p. 63 (1883). 
Napophila athertoni (Jard. & Selby), Blytb, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xi. p. 104 (1842). 
Napophila meropina, Hodgs. in Gray’s Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844). 
Alcemerops athertoni (Jard. & Selby), Blytb, Cat. B. in Mus. As. Soc. p. 52 (1849). 
Bucia athertoni (Jard. & Selby), Reichenb. Haudb. Meropime, p, 83 (1852) ; Gray, Hand-1, of B. i. p. 98, no. 1196 
(1869). 
Merops assamensis, M'Clell, fide Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 87 (1849). 
Figures notabiles. 
Jardine & Selby, l. c. ; Gould, B. of Asia, vol. iii. pi . ; Reichenbach, l. c. 
Hab. India, ranging eastward into Bnnnah. 
Ad. capite, collo et corpore supra cum alis caudaque psittacino-viridibus : fronte pallide turcino-cmrulea et pileo 
eodem colore lavato : guise et juguli plumis elongatis, turcino-cseruleis, imis saturatifis cseruleis : pectore imo 
et corpore subtus reliquo ochraceo-cervinis, abdomine saturate viridi striato : alis subtus aurantiaco-cervinis : 
rostro saturate brunneo : mandibula ad basin pallide schistaceb : pedibus pallide viridibus : iride aurantiaco- 
rubra seu aurantiaco-fusccl. 
Juv. saturatior : capite, gula et jugulo viridibus nec cmrulcis. 
Adult male (Tenasserim, lOtli June). — Head, neck, and upper parts generally rich, parrot- 
green ; forehead pale turquoise-blue, and tlie crown marked with the same colour ; a broad line 
