MELITTOPHAGUS B U L L O C K O I D E S. 
WHITE-FEONTED BEE-EATEB. 
Merops bullocJcoides , Smithy S. Afr. Quart. Journ. 2nd ser. part ii. p. 320 (1834) ; id. 111. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, 
pi. ix. (1849) ; Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 324 ; Lajard, B. of S. Afr. p. 70 (1867) ; Bocage, J. Sc. Ac. Lisb. ii. 
p. 135 (1867) ; id. op. cit. v. p. 48 (1868) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 4 (1871) ; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 363 ; Bocage, 
J. Sc. Ac. Lisb. xvii. p. 35 (1874) ; id. J. f. O. 1876, p. 407 ; Sharpe & Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. de la France, 
1878, p. 475 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 289; Sharpe in Oates’s Matabele Land, App. p. 301 (1881); Bocage, 
Orn. d’ Angola, p. 93 (1881) ; Sharpe in Layard’s B. of S. Afr. p. 99 (1875-84). 
Melittophagus bullocJcoides (Smith), Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 86 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 164 (1850); Liclit. 
Nomencl. Av. p. 66 (1854) ; Yon Muller, J. f. O. 1855, p. 11 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1865, p. 265 ; Gray, Hand-1, of 
B.i. p. 101, no. 1225 (1869) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 150. 
Merops bullockioides (Smith), Reichenbach, Meropinse, p. 77 (1852). 
Coccolarynx bullockioides (Smith), Reichenb. Meropiiue, p. 83 (1852). 
Spheconax albifrons, Cab. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 133 (1859-60). 
Merops smithi, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Merops, p. 9 (1863). 
Merops albifrons (Cab.), Finsch & Hartl. Yog. Ost-Afr. p. 188 (1870) ; Giebel, Thes. Orn. ii. p. 571 (1875). 
Figurce notcibiles. 
Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. ix. ; Reichenbach, Meropinse, pi. ccccl. figs. 3248, 3249 ; Sharpe in Layard’s B. 
of S. Afr. pi. iv. fig. 1. 
Hab. Southern Africa. 
Ad. fronte, mento et stria infraoculari albis : nucha aurantiaco-cervinh : corpore supra cum alis et cauda psitta- 
cino-viridibus : primariis intimis inconspicue nigro apicatis et seeundariis (intimis elongatis exceptis) valde 
nigro terminatis: loris cum stria magna per oculos ductd nigris : jugulo sanguineo : corpore subtus aurautiaco- 
cervino : crisso cum supra- et subcaudalibus lsete azureis : rostro et pedibus nigris : iride coccinea. 
Juv. ubique palbdior et sordidior : jugulo pallide rubro, et crisso cum subcaudalibus pallide azureis. 
Adult male (Makalaka Country). — (Forehead silyery white ; crown pale Brownish, intermixed 
with white; nape and hind neck pale orange-buff; upper parts generally, including the upper 
surface of the wings and tail, rich parrot-green, slightly tinged with bluish green ; inner primaries 
slightly and secondaries (excepting the elongated innermost ones) broadly termiuated with deep 
black ; upper and under tail-coverts and crissum deep cobalt-blue ; lores and a broad stripe 
passing through and behind the eye deep black ; chin and a broad stripe below the black stripe 
pure white ; throat bright scarlet ; rest of the underparts warm golden buff, becoming blue on 
the lower abdomen; bill and legs blackish ; iris red. Total length about 8'5 inches, culmenl’65, 
wing 4'6, tail 3’85, tarsus 0‘58. 
