MEROPS PERSICUS. 
BLUE-CHEEKED BEE-EATEE. 
Merops persica, Pallas, Ileisc Russ. Reichs, ii. Anil. p. 708 (1773) ; Keyserl. & Blasius, Wirbelth. Eur. pp. xxxv 
& 149 (1840) ; Von der Miihle, Orn. Gr. p. 32 (1844) ; C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 50 (1855) ; Bree, B. of 
Eur. iii. p. 164 (1867) ; C. W. Wyatt, Ibis, 1870, p. 10; Schalow, J. f. O. 1877, p. 197. 
Merops agyptius, Forsk. Descr. Animal. Aves, p. 2 (1776) ; Lesson, Traite d’Orn. p. 237 (1831); Gray, Gen. of B. 
i. p. 86 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 161 (1850) ; v. Mull. J. f. O. 1855, p. 9; Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. 
p. 209 (1862) ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Merops, p. 2 (1863) ; Tristram, Ibis, 1864, p. 433; Heuglin, Ibis, 
1864, p.334; Giglioli, Ibis, 1865, p. 52 ; Monteiro, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 96 ; Tristram, Ibis, 1866, p. 83 ; Degland & 
Gerb. Orn. Eur. i. p. 173 (1867) ; Layard, B. of S. Afr. p. 69 (1867); Bocage, Jorn. Ac. Sc. Lisb. ii. p. 134 (1867); 
Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 154; Bocage, Jorn. Ac. Sc. Lisb. vii. p. 339 (1870) ; id. op. cit. xiii. p. 68 (1872) ; 
Salvadori, Ucc. d’ Italia, p. 44 (1872) ; Hume, Stray Feathers, i. p. 167 (1873) ; Adam, tom. cit. p. 371 (1873) ; 
Savi, Orn. Tosc. 2nd ed. i. p. 238 (1873) ; Hume, Nests & Eggs of Ind. B. p. 103 (1873) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 
1874, p. 306 ; Hume, Str. Eeath. iii. pp. 326, 456 (1875) ; Bocage, J. f. 0. 1876, p. 407 ; Butler, Stray Feathers, 
vii. p. 181 (1878) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1879, p. 446. 
Le Guepier savigny, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Guep. p. 30, pis. 6, 6 bis (1807). 
Le Guepier rousse-gorge, Levaillant, op. cit. p. 52, pi. 16 (1807). 
Merops longicauda, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xiv. p. 15 (1817, ex Levaill.). 
Merops super ciliosus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xiv. p. 20 (1817, nec Linn.) ; Licbt. Verz. Doubl. p. 13 (1823) ; Rupp. Syst. 
Uebers. p. 23 (1845) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 197 (1889) ; Blanford, Geol. & Zool. of Abyss, p. 321 
(1870) ; J. H. Gurney, Ibis, 1871, p. 74 ; Reichenow, J. f. O. 1877, p. 21 ; Bocage, Orn. d’ Angola, p. 87 (1881) . 
Merops savignyi, Audouin, Expl. somm. PI. Hist. Nat. de FEgypte (1825, ex Levaill.) ; Crespon, Orn. du Gard, 
p. 291 (1840); Malherbe, Faun. Orn. Sic. p. 141 (1843); Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 161 (1850); C. L. 
Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 50 (1855) ; von Muller, J. f. O. 1855, p. 9; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 39 (1857) ; Layard, 
B. of S. Afr. p. 69 (1867). 
Merops savignii (Aud.), Steph. in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 74 (1825) ; Cuvier, Regne Animal, 2nd ed. i. 
p. 442 (1829) ; Swainson, Classif. of B. ii. p. 333 (1837) ; Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2nd ed. iv. p. 649 (1840) ; 
Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 86 (1846) ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 66 (1854) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1861, p. 132; Monteiro, 
Ibis, 1862, p. 334; G. F. L. Marshall, Ibis, 1872, p. 203 ; Bocage, J. f. Orn. 1876, p. 407. 
Merops persicus, Pall., Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 35 (1840) ; Schlegel, Rev. Crit. p. 53 (1844) ; Gray, 
Gen. of B. i. p. 86 (1846) ; Degland, Orn. Eur. i. p. 618 (1849) ; Blyth, Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p. 51 (1849) ; 
Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 27 ; Lindermayer, Vog. Griechenl. p. 45 (18(50) ; S. S. Allen, Ibis, 1862, p. 359 ; 
Wright, Ibis, 1864, p. 73 ; E. C. Taylor, Ibis, 1867, p. 56 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1871, p. 48 ; Wright, Ibis, 1874, 
p. 237 ; Kriiper, Griech. Jahresz. iii. p. 191 (1875) ; Lacroix, Cat. Ois. Pyr. Franc, p. 273 (1875) ; Dresser, 
B. of Europe, v. p. 165 (1877) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 49; Scully, Ibis, 1881, pp. 48, 429; 
Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, p. 210; Tristram, Ibis, 1882, pp. 414, 417; Dixon, Ibis, 1882, p. 560. 
Blephamerops savignyi (Aud.), Reichenb. Meropinm, p. 82 (185.2) ; Gray, Hand-1, of B. i. p. 99, no. 1206 (1869). 
Blephamerops cegyptius (Forsk.), Reichenb. ut supra (1852) ; Gray, Hand-1, of B. i. p. 99, no. 1205 (1869). 
Merops cegyptiaca, Erhard, Fauna der Cycladen, p. 52 (1858) . 
? Merops chrysocercus, Cab. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 139 (1859-60); G. F. L. Marshall, Ibis, 1872, p. 203. 
