MELITTOPHAGUS BULLOCK! 
BLUE-VENTED BEE-EATEE. 
Le Guepier a gorge rouge ou le Guepier bulocJc, Levaillant, Hist. Nat. Guep. p. 59, pi. 20 (1807). 
Merops bulocki, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xiv. p. 13 (1817) ; id. Tabl. Encycl. et Meth. p. 391 (1820) ; Rupp. Syst. Uebers. 
p. 24 (1845) ; Vierthaler, Naumannia, 1852, i. pp. 40, 44, 53. 
Merops bullocki (Vieill.), Lesson, Traite d'Orn. p. 237 (1831) ; Scblegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Merops, p. 8 (1863 ) ; 
Sbarpe & Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, p. 304 ; Forbes, Ibis, 1883, p. 533. 
Merops bullockii (Vieill.), Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Joum. 2nd ser. part ii. p. 320 (1834) ; Reicbenbach, Meropinse, 
p. 78 (1852); A. E. Brehm, J. f. O. 1853, pp. 455, 456, Extrali. p. 97 ; Hartlaub, Orn. W.-Afr. p. 41(;(1857) ; 
Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 204 (1869). 
Merops cyanogcister, Swains. B. of W. Afr. ii. p. 80, pi. 8 (1837). 
Melittophagus bullocki (Vieill.), Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 86 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 163 (1850) ; 
Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. p. 66 (1854) ; Von Muller, J. f. O. 1855, p. 11 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 556. 
Coccolarynx bullocki (Vieill.), Rcichenb. Meropinse, p. 83 (1852) ; Gray, Hand-1, of B. i. p. 101, no. 1224 (1869). 
Spheconax bullocki (Vieill.), Cab. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 134 (1859-60). 
Spheconax frenatus (Hartl.), Cab. nt supra. 
Merops frenatus, Hartlaub, J. f. O. 1854, p. 25 7; Heuglin, J. f. O. 1864, p. 335. 
Melittophagus bullockii (Vieill.), Hartmann, J. f. O. 1866, p. 204. 
Coccolarynx frenatus (Hartl.), Gray, Hand-1, of B. i. p. 101, no. 1226 (1869). 
Figures notcibiles. 
Swainson, B. of W. Afr. ii. pi. 8; Reichenbach, Meropinse, pi. ccccl. figs. 3250, 3251. 
Hab. Northern portions of East and West Africa. 
Ad. supra psittacino-viridis, pilei plumis cyaneo anguste apicatis : nucha, et collo postico rufescenti-cervinis, dorso 
supremo eodem colore lavato : remigibus primariis vix nigricante apicatis, secundariis (intimis elongatis 
exceptis) conspicue nigro terminatis, colore nigro ipso postico, basin remigum versus, Isete cyaneo lavato : 
rectricibus virescente cinnamomeis, duabus centralibus dorso concoloribus : lamia transoculari nigra cyaneo 
marginata, et stria frontali cyanea : gula scarlatina : pectore abdomineqne aurantiaco-cervinis : abdomine imo 
et subcaudalibus saturate ultramarinis : rostro nigro : pedibns fuscis : iride fusco-rnbra. 
Adult (Senegal). —Crown, upper surface of body, wings, and tail parrot-green, the feathers on 
the crown slightly tipped with pale cohalt-blue ; nape and hind neck warm rufescent-buff, the 
fore part of the back tinged with the same colour; primary-quills slightly tipped with dull 
blackish, the secondaries, all but the elongated inner ones, broadly terminated with deep black, 
and crossed at the base of the black by a narrow blue line ; tail rufescent orange tinged with 
green, the two central rectrices being, however, green like the back ; lores and a patch extending 
through the eye over the ear-coverts deep black, slightly bordered with turquoise-blue, there being 
also an indistinct turquoise-blue line over the forehead ; chin and throat rich glossy carmine-red ; 
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