Merops Collection

New Zealand tui bird, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, and European bee eater, Merops apiaster. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d Orbignys

Paradise riflebird and blue-throated bee-eater
Paradise riflebird, Ptiloris paradiseus, and blue-throated bee-eater, Merops viridis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838

Little bee-eater, Merops pusillus (Red-winged bee-eater, Merops erythropterus). Africa. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester

Rainbow bee-eater, Merops ornatus (Variegated bee-eater). Australia. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822

Red-throated bee-eater, Merops bulocki (Blue-bellied bee-eater, Merops cyanogaster). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists

Swallow-tailed bee-eater, Merops hirundineus (Fork-tailed, blue-vented bee-eater, Merops hirundinaceus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William

Northern carmine bee-eater, Merops nubicus (Blue-headed bee-eater, Merops caeruleocephalus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines

Blue-cheeked bee-eater, Merops persicus (Merops savigni). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library: Ornithology

Smiths bee-eater, Merops puella. Handcoloured engraving after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from a specimen in William Bullocks Museum from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by

Blue-throated bee-eater, Merops viridis viridis (Sumatra bee-eater, Merops sumatranus). Handcoloured engraving after an illustration by H

Tui, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, and butterfly
Tui, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae (New Zealand creeper, Merops novae seelandiae) and Amauris psyttalea butterfly (Papilio enceladus). From specimens in the possession of Marmaduke Tunstall

Merops ornatus, Latham collection Vol. 3, f368

Blue-headed bee-eater, Merops muelleri.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

European bee-eater, Merops apiaster.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Bee-eater, Merops apiaster.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Two Bee-Eaters
(Merops) Two from this family : Red-winged bee-eater Blue-headed bee eater

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