MEROPS SUMATRANUS. 
SUMATKAN BEE-EATER 
A 
Merops sumatranus, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 294 (1821) ; Steph. in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. xiii. part 2, p. 73 
(1825) ; Gray, Gen. of JB. i. p. 86 (1846) ; Blyth, Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p. 52 (1849) ; Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, 
p. 151; Tweeddale, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix, p. 151, pi. xxvi. fig. 2 (1875) ; id. Ibis, 1877, p. 297 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 
1879, p. 248 ; Hume, Stray Leathers, viii. p. 48 (1879) ; Tiraut, Bull. Soc. Comm. Agric. de la Cochin Chine, 
ser. 3, vol. i. p. 98 (1879). 
Merops cyanopygius, Less. Traite d’Orn. p. 238 (1831). 
Le Guepier de Sumatra, Less. Compl. Buff. ii. Ois. 2nd ed. pi. fig. 2 (1840). 
Merops bicolor, Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 87 (1854), nee Bodd. ; Mottley & Dillwyn, Contrib. 
Nat. Hist. Labuan and Borneo, p. 14 (1855) ; Salvadori, Ucc. Born. p. 90 (1874) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, 
p. 101 ; id. Ibis, 1877, p. 5 ; David & Oust. Ois. de la Chine, p. 73 (1877) ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 377. 
Merops badius, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 162 (1850), nee Gmel. ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 66 (1854) ; Schlegel, 
Mus. Pays-Bas, Merops, p. 3 (1863, partim) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 213 ; Pelzeln, Novara Reise, Vog. i. 
p. 50 (1865) ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 377. 
Melittophas bicolor, Cab. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 157 (1859), nec Bodd.; Gray, Hand-1, of B. i. p. 99, no. 1202 (1869, 
partim) . 
? Melittophas chlorolcemus, Gray, Hand-1, of B. i. p. 99, no. 1203 (1869). 
Merops rochechouardi, Heude, Ann. Sc. Nat. 1873 [from label on specimen in Paris Museum]. 
Figura unica. 
Tweeddale, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. pi. xxvi. fig. 2. 
Hab. China, Cochin China, Malay peninsula, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. 
Ad. Meropi bicolori persimilis, sed capite et dorso valde saturatioribus : mento et gula saturate cseruleis nec viridi 
tinctis. 
Juv. capite, nucha et dorso saturate viridibus nec castaneis : mento et gula sordide caeruleis vix viridi tinctis : 
abdomine imo albo pallide viridi tincto : subcaudalibus ceeruleo tinctis, rectricibus centralibus non elongatis. 
Adult male (Qualla Kangsa, Perak, 25th February). — Resembles Merops bicolor, but has 
the head, neck, and back much darker, the colour being deep rich chestnut-brown, with an almost 
coppery tinge ; upper throat deep blue, without any trace of green, the blue being sharply divided 
from the green on the rest of the underparts ; bill, legs, and iris as in Merops bicolor. Total 
length about 9|- inches, culmen 1-55, wing 4'4, tail 5 - 3, central rectrices extending 2 - l inches 
beyond the lateral ones, tarsus 0'5. 
Adult female (Cebu). — Poes not differ from the male in coloration of plumage. 
