Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater

Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater / Merops oreobates

Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater

Here the details of the Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Merops oreobates
Protonym:  Melittophagus oreobates Ibis p.320
Taxonomy:  Coraciiformes / Meropidae /
Taxonomy Code:  ccbeat1
Type Locality:  Save'' [i.e. Sabei], 6000 feet, and Kimangishi, Mt. Elgon, East Africa.
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Publish Year:  1892
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DEFINITIONS

MEROPS
(Meropidae; Ϯ European Bee-eater M. apiaster) L. merops, meropis  bee-eater  < Gr. μεροψ merops  bee-eater; "57. MEROPS.  Rostrum curvatum, compressum, carinatum.  Lingua apice laciniata.  Digiti infimo articulo coadunati: postico distincto." (Linnaeus 1758); "Merops Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 117. Type, by tautonymy, Merops apiaster Linné (Merops, prebinomial specific name in synonymy)." (Peters 1945, V, 233). Linnaeus's Merops comprised four species (M. Apiaster, M. viridis, M. cinereus, M. cafer).
Synon. Aerops, Apiaster, Archimerops, Blepharomerops, Bombylonax, Coccolarynx, Cosmaerops, Dicreadium, Dicrocercus, Melittias, Melittophagus, Melittophas, Melittotheres, Meropiscus, Micromerops, Patricus, Phlothrus, Spheconax, Sphecophobus, Tachymerops, Tephraerops, Urica.

oreobates
Gr. ορεοβατης oreobatēs  mountain-ranging < ορος oros, ορεος oreos  mountain; βατης batēs  treader  < βατεω bateō  to tread  < βαινω bainō  to walk.