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M E L I T T O P H A G U S BULLOCKI.
BLUE-VENTED BEE-EATEE.
Le Guépier & gorge rouge ou le Gucpier bulock, Levaillant, Hist. Nat. Guep. p. 59, pi. 20 (1807).
Merops bulocki, View. Nouv. Diet. xiv. p. 13 (1817); id. Tabl. Encycl. et Me'tli. p. 391 (1820); Riipp. Syst. Uebers.
p. 24 (1845); Viertbaler, Naumannia, 1852, i. pp. 40, 44, 53.
Merops builocki (Vieill.), Lesson, Traité d'Orn. p. 237 (1831); Schlegel, Mus. Payu-Bas, Merops, p. 8 (1863);
Sharpe & Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, p. 3 0 4 ; Forbes, Ibis, 1883, p. 533.
Merops bullockii (Vieill.), Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ. 2nd scr. part ii. p. 320 (1834); Reichenbach, Meropina?,
p. 78 (1852); A. E. Breton, J. f. O. 1853, pp. 455, 456, Extrah. p. 9 7 ; Ilartlaub, Orn. W.-Afr. p. 41" (1857);
Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 204 (1869).
Merops v.ijaiHigttstvr, Swains. 1!. o£ W. Afr. ii. p. 80, pi. 8 (1837).
Melittophagus builocki (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. 1 1 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 556.
Coccolarynx builocki (Vieill.), Reichenb. Meropina!, p. 83 (1852); Gray, Hand-1. of B. i. p. 101, no. 1224 (1869).
Spheconax builocki (Vieill.), Cab. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 134 (1859-60).
Spheconax fremitus (HartL), Cab. ut supra.
Merops fremitus, Hartlaub, J. f. O. 1854, p. 257; Heuglin, J. f. O. 1864, p. 335.
Melittophagus bullockii (Vieill.), Hartmann, J. f. 0 . 1866, p. 204.
Coccolarynx frenatus (HartL), Gray, Hand-1. of B. i. p. 101, no. 1226 (1869).
B notabiles.
Swainsou, B. of W. Afr. ii. pi. 8 ; Reichenbach, Mcropime, pi. ccccl. figs. 32Q0, 3251.
HAB. Northern portions of East and West Africa.
Ad, supra psittaciuo-viridis, pile! plumis cyaneo auguste apicatis : nucha ct collo postico rufesceuti-ccrvinis, dorso
supremo codem colore lavato: remigihus primaries vix uigrieante apicatis, secundaria (intimis clongatis
exceptia) conspicue nigro terminatis, colore nigro ipso postico, basin rcmigum versus, bete cyaneo lavato :
rectricibus vircsccnte cinnamomcis, duabus contralihus dorso concoloribus: ta:uia transoculari nigra cyaneo
marginal, et stria frontali cyancil: gula scarlatina : pcctorc abdomincuue aurantiaco-ccrviuia: abdomine imo
et subcaudalibus saturate ultramarinis : rostro nigro : pedibus fuscis: iridc fusco-ruhril.
Aduli (Senegal).—Crown, upper surface of body, wings, and tail parrot-green, the feathers on
the crown slightly tipped with pale cobalt-blue; nape and bind neck warm rufcscent-btuT, 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 rcctrices being, however, green like the hack; lores and a patch extending
through the eye over the car-coverts deep black, slightly bordered with tiuquoise-bluc, there being
also an indistinct turquoise-blue line over the forehead; chin and throat rich glossy carmine-red;