MEROPS PHILIPPINES. 
BLUE-TAILED BEE-EATER. 
Ap i as ter phi lipp e n s i s major, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 860, pi. xliii. fig. 1 (1760). 
Grand Guepier des Philippines, D’Aubenton, PI. Enl.no. 57. 
Le Guepier vert a, queue d’azur, Montb. in Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 504 (1779). 
Merops philippinus , Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13, i. p. 183, no. 5 (1767) ; Gruel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 461 (1788); Shaw, 
Gen. Zool. viii. pt. 1, p. 165 (1811) ; Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xiv. p. 27 (1817) ; Franklin, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 115; 
Ewer, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 92; Strickland, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 167; Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 86 (1846) ; Horsf. & 
Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 86 (1854) ; Licht. Nomencl. At. p. 66 (1854) ; F. Moore, P. Z. S. 
1854, p. 263; Gould, B. of Asia, part vii. (1855); F. Moore, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 87 ; Cassin, U.S. Expl. 
Exp. p. 228 (1858); Gould, P.Z.S. 1859, pp. 150, 151; Cab. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 139 (1859) ; Irby, Ibis, 
1861, p. 228; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 213; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Merops, p. 2 (1863); Hume, 
Nests & Eggs of Ind. B. p. 101 (1873) ; Holdsworth, Ibis, 1874, p. 125 ; Salvadori, Ucc. Born. p. 89 
(1874); Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 281; Fairbank, Str. Featb. iv. p. 254 (1876); Hume, Str. Feath. iv. 
p. 287 (1876) ; David & Oirstalet, Ois. de la Chine, p. 78 (1877) ; Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 540, 
690; Ball, Str. Feath. v. p. 413 (1877) ; Fairbank, Str. Feath. v. p. 394 (1877) ; Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1878, 
pp. 107, 282, 340, 709; Hume, Stray Feath. vi. p. 498 (1878); Ball, Str. Feath. vii. p. 203 (1878); Cripps, 
Str. Feath. vii. p. 258 (1878) ; Tiraut, Bull. Com. Agr. de la Cochin Chine, ser. 3, vol. i. p. 98 (1879) ; Hume, 
Str. Feath. viii. p. 48 (1879) ; Bingham, Str. Feath. viii. p. 198 (1879) ; Butler, Str. Feath. viii. p. 386 (1879) ; 
Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 57; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 248; Bingham, Str. Feath. ix. p. 152 (1880) ; Yidal, Str. 
Feath. ix. p. 49 (1880) ; Legge, B. of Ceylon, p. 306 (1880) ; Nicholson, Ibis, 1881, p. 143; Kelham, Ibis, 
1881, p. 378; Oates, B. of Brit. Burm. ii. p. 66 (1883). 
Le Guepier a queue d’azur ou le Guepier Daudin, Levaill, Hist. Nat. Guep. p. 49, pi. 14 (1807). 
Merops philipp ensis, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 75 (1825); Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 207 (1862) ; 
Swinhoe, Ibis, 1865, p. 230; Beavan, Ibis, 1865, p. 407 ; id. Ibis, 1867, p. 318 ; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1870, p. 91 ; 
Legge, Ibis, 1874, pp. 13, 125; Ball, Str. Feath. ii. p. 386 (1874) ; id. op. cit. iii. p. 289 (1875) ; Hume, 
Str. Feath. iii. p. 456 (1875) ; id. op. cit. v. p. 18 (1877) ; Anderson, Yunnan Exped. i. p. 511 (1878). 
Merops daudin, Cuvier, Regne Anim. i. p. 442 (1829, ex Levaill.). 
Merops javanicus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 171 ; Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 73 (1825) ; 
Lesson, Man. d’Orn. ii. p. 86 (1828) ; Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 101 ; Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 86 (1846) ; Bp. 
Consp. Gen. Av.i. p. 162 (1850) ; B,eichenb. Meropinse, p. 66 (1852) ; Mottley, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 213; Pelzeln, 
Novara Reise, Yog. i. p. 50 (1865). 1 
Merops javanica (Horsf.), Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 333 (1837). 
Merops typicus, Hodgson in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844). 
Merops cyanorrhos, Temm. in Mus. Lugd. fide Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 162 (1850). 
Merops savignyi, in Mns. Massen. fide Cab. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 139. 
Blepharomerops javanicus (Horsf.), Reichenbach, Meropinse, p. 82 (1852). 
Elepharomerops philippinus (Gniel.), Reichenb. ut supra (1852) ; G. R. Gray, Hand-1, of B. i. p. 99, no. 1207 
(1869). 
