MELITTOPHAGUS QUINTICOLOR. 
CHESTNUT-HEADED BEE-EATER 
? Merops indicus erythrocephalus, Brisson, Orn. iv. p. 563, pi. xliv. fig. 3 (1760). 
? Merops erythrocephalus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 463 (1788) ; Lath. Inch Orn. p. 274 (1790) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. 
pt. L p. 181 (1811) ; Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 86 (1846) ; Blyth, Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p. 52 (1849) ; Swinhoe, 
P.Z. S. 1871, p. 349 ; Blyth & Wald. B. Burm. p. 72 (1875). 
Le Guilder quinticolor, Levaillant, Hist. Nat. Guep. p. 51 (1807). 
Merops quinticolor, Yieill. Nouy. Diet. xiv. p. 21 (1816) ; id. Tahl. Encycl. et Method, p. 393 (1820) ; Bp. Consp. 
Gen. Av. i. p. 163 (1850, partim) ; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 119 (1852) ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xii. 
p. 174 (1853) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. p. 88 (1854) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 264 ; Gould, 
B. of Asia, pt. viii. (1856); Jerdon, B. of India, i. p. 208 (1862); Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 318; Blanf. Ibis, 
1870, p. 465 ; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 349 ; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 423 ; Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 3 ; 
G. P. L. Marshall, Ibis, 1872, p. 203 ; Walden, Ibis, 1873, p. 201; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 13; Anderson, Zool. 
Exp. Yunnan, i. p. 583 (1878) ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 377. 
Merops urica, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 172 (1822) ; Steph. in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 75 (1825) ; 
Less. Man. d’Orn. i. p. 86 (1828) ; Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 333 (1837). 
Melittias quinticolor (Yieill.), Cab. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 134 (1859-60); Gray, Hand-1, of B. i. p. 100, no. 1216 
(1869). 
Merops swinhoei, Hume, Nests & Eggs of Ind. B. p. 182 (1873) ; id. Stray Feathers, ii. pp. 163, 386 (1874) ; Ball, 
Stray F. ii. p. 386 (1874) ; Hume, Stray F. iii. p. 50 (1875) ; Fairbank, Stray F. iv. p. 254 (1876) ; Arm- 
strong, Stray F. iv. p. 305 (1876) ; Hume, Stray F. v. p. 18 (1877) ; Ball, Stray F. vii. p. 203 (1878) ; Hume, 
Str. F. vii. pp. 455, 456 (1878) ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 48 (1879) ; Tiraut, Bull. Com. Agr. dela Cochin Chine, 
ser. 3, vol. i. p. 97 (1879) ; Yidal, Stray F. ix. p. 49 (1880) ; Legge, B. of Ceylon, p. 312 (1880). 
Merops leschenaulti, Blyth, B. of Burmah, J. As. Soc. Beng. 1875, extra no. p. 72 (nec Vieill.) ; Hume, Str. Featli. 
vi. p. 498 (1878). 
Melittophagus leschenaulti, Oates, B. of Brit. Burm. ii. p. 68 (1883, nec Yieill.). 
Kurumenne kurulla, Sinhalese, Southern Province; Pook-kira, Sinh., N.W. Province ( fide Legge). 
Mgurce notabiles. 
Gould, B. of Asia, pi. 13; Reicbenbach, Meropina::, pi. ccccxliii. fig. 3223. 
Hab. India, Ceylon, Burmah, Cochin China, China, Malay peninsula. 
Ad. fronte, pileo, nucha et dorso castaneis : dorso imo cum secundariis intimis psittacino-viridibus : secundariis 
intimis cseruleo apicatis, remigibus viridibus in pogonio interno rufescentibus et nigro-fusco terminatis : 
uropygio et supracaudalibus pallide cmruleis : rectricibus centralibus in pogonio externo caeruleis et in pogonio 
interno viridibus, reliquis viridibus, in pogonio interno fusco marginatis et nigro-fusco terminatis : loris et 
maculft per oculos nigricantibus : mento, gula et facie lateribus flavis : torque jugulari castaneo, in parte ima 
nigro et indistincte fiavido marginato : corpore subtus flavo-viridi, crisso et subcaudalibus cseruleo lavatis : 
rostro et pedibus nigris : iride rubra. 
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