MEROPS MALIMBICUS. 
GBEY-AND-BED BEE-EATEE. 
Merops bicolor, Daudin, Ann. Mns. Hist. Nat. ii. p. 440, pi. 6.2. fig. 1 (1803, nee Bodd .) ; Vieill. Tabl. Encycl. et 
Meth. p. 390 (1820) ; Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 86 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 162 (1850) ; Von Muller, 
J. f. O. 1855, p. 10; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Merops, p. 7 (1863) ; Hartlaub, Orn. Westafr. p. 41 (1857) ; 
Reich enow, J. f. O. 1875, p. 19 ; id. J. f. O. 1877, p. 21 ; Bocage, Orn. d’ Angola, p. 89 (1881). 
Merops malimbicus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. xvii . pi. 701 (1806) ; id. Gen. Zool. viii. pt. 1, p. 174 (1811) ; Steph. in 
Shaw’s Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 75 (1825) ; Lesson, Traite d’Orn. p. 237 (1831) ; Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ. 
2nd ser. part ii. p. 319 (1834) ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 48. 
Le Guepier gris-rose, Levaillant, Hist. Nat. Guep. p. 28, pi. 5 (1807). 
Tephrarops bicolor, Reichenbacli, Meropinse, p. 82 (1852, nec Bodd.). 
Teplircerops malimbicus (Shaw), Gray, Hand-1, of B. i. p. 100, no. 1215 (1869). 
Figures notabiles. 
Daudin, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. ii. pi. 62. fig. 1 ; Shaw, Nat. Misc. xvii. pi. 701 ; Levaillant, Hist. Nat. Guep. pi. 5 ; 
Reichenbacli, pi. cccclii. figs. 3256, 3257. 
Hab. West Africa. 
Ad. supra saturate schistaceo-cinereus, supracaudalibus vix rubro tinctis : remigibus nigris, intimis apicibus emar- 
ginatis : cauda rufescenti-fusca, schistaceo lavata : vitta suboculari cum regione parotied nigris, mento et vitta 
sub vitta suboculari albis : gutture et corpore subtus leete rosaceo-coccineis, abdomine imo cum subcaudalibus 
cinereis : alis et cauda subtus sordide fumoso-cinereis : rostro nigro : pedibus fuscis : iride rubra. 
Juv. adulto similis, sed cauda magis cinereo tinctft et corpore subtus sordidiore, vittd albd in guise lateribus angus- 
tiore : rectricibus centralibus vix elongatis : iride rufescenti-fusca. 
Adult male (Abouri). — Entire upper parts dark slaty grey, sligbtly tinged with red on the 
upper tail-coverts ; quills black, the inner ones front the sixth notched at the tip ; tail reddish 
brown with a grey tinge ; lores and a stripe passing below the eye and extending over the ear- 
coverts black ; chin and a broad stripe bordering the black stripe pure white ; underparts rich 
rose-red ; lower abdomen and under tail-coverts ashy grey ; under surface of wings and tail smoky 
grey; bill black; feet brown; iris red. Total length about 9 inches, culmen 1'8, wing 5-55, 
tail 5-3 (central rectrices extending 1-8 beyond the lateral ones), tarsus 05. 
Young (West Africa).— Tail much more strongly tinged with grey than in the adult ; under- 
parts duller in colour and the white on the chin and sides of the throat less extensive ; central 
tail-feathers but slightly elongated ; iris reddish brown. 
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