C H E F Î N U T - H E A D E D BEE EATER.
WELITTOPHAGUS QUIN TIC OLOR
M E L I T T O P HAGUS QUINTICOLOR.
CHESTNÜT-HEADED BEE-EATER
? Merops indiriis enjthrocephalus, Brisson, Orn. iv. p. 563, pi. xliv. fig. 3 (1760).
? Merops erythrocephatus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 463 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 274 (1790) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii.
pt. 1, p. 181 (1811) ; Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 86 (1816) ; Blyth, Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p. 52 (1849) ; Swinhoc,
P . Z . S . 1871, p. 349; Blyth & Wald. B. Burra. p. 72 (1875).
Le Guêpier quinticohr, Levaillant, Hist. Nat. Guep. p. 51 (1807).
Merops quinticohr, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xiv. p. 21 (1816) ; id. Tahl. Encycl. et Method, p. 393 (1820) ; Bp. Consp.
Gen. Av. i. p. 163 (1850, partim) ; Kclaart, 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. 261; Gould,
B. of Asia, pt. viii. (1856); Jcrdon, B. of India, i. p. 208 (1862); Bcavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 318; Blanf. I bis,
1870, p. 4 6 5 ; Swinhoe, P . Z . S . 1871, p. 840; Holdaworth, P.Z.S. 1872, p. 423 ; Jcrdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 3 ;
G. P. L. Marshall, Ibis, 1872, p. 203 ; Waiden, Ibis, 1873, p. 201; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 13; Anderson, Zool.
Exp. Yunnan, i. p. 583 (1878) ; Kelham, IbiH, 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. Mau. d'Orn. i. p. 86 (1828) ; Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 333 (1837).
Melitftas quinticohr (Vieill.), Cab. Mus. Hein. iL p. 134 (1859-60) ; Gray, Hand-1. of B. i. p. 100, no. 1216
(1869).
Merops swinkoei, 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 (187G) ; Armstrong,
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. delà Cochin Chiuc,
acr. 3, vol. i. p. 97 (1879) ; Vidal, Stray F. ix. p. 49 (1880) ; Legge, B. of Ceylon, p. 312 (1880).
Memps leschenaulti, Blyth, B. of Burmah, J. As. Soc. Bcng. 1875, extra no. p. 72 (nee Vicill.) ; Hume, Str. Fcath.
vi. p. 498 (1878).
Melittophagus leschenaulti, Oatcs, B. of Brit. Burm. ii. p. 68 (1883, ncc Vicill.).
Kimimenne kurulla, Sinhalese, Southern Province; Pook-kira, Sinh-, N.W. Province [fide Legge).
Gould, B. of Asia, pl. 13; Reicht-r.liacli. Memphis, pl. cceexlüi. íig. 3223.
HAB. India, Ceylon, Burmah, Cochiu China, China, Malay peninsula.
Ad. fronte, pilco, nuchâ et dorso castaneis : dorso imo cum secundariis intimís psittaeino-viridibus : secundarüs
intimis coeruleo apicatis, remigibus viridibus in pogonio interno rafesccntibns ct nigro-fusco terminatis:
uropygio et supracandalibus pallidè escrutéis : rectricihus centralibus ¡n pogonio externo earulcis et in pogomo
interno viridibus, reliquis viridibus, in pogonio interno fusco marginatis ct nigro-fusco terminatis : loris et
macula per oculos nigrioantibus : mentó, gulâ et faeic lateribus flavis ! torque jugulari castauco, in parte imft
nigro et indistincte «ávido marginato: corpore subtÜs flavo-viridi, crUso ct suheaudalibus cicrulco lavatis :
rostro ct pedibus nigris : iride rubra.