Carmine Bee-eater
Carmine bee-eater may refer to: * Northern carmine bee-eater (''Merops nubicus'' or ''Merops nubicus nubicus'') * Southern carmine bee-eater (''Merops nubicoides'' or ''Merops nubicus nubicoides'') {{Animal common name Birds by common name ...
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Northern Carmine Bee-eater
The northern carmine bee-eater (''Merops nubicus'') is a brightly-coloured bird in the bee-eater family, Meropidae. It is found across northern tropical Africa, from Senegal eastwards to Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the southern carmine bee-eater which has a carmine coloured throat rather than the blue throat of the northern species. Taxonomy The northern carmine bee-eater was formally described in 1788 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's '' Systema Naturae''. He placed it with the other bee-eaters in the genus ''Merops'' and coined the binomial name ''Merops nubicus''. Gmelin based his description on "Le guépier rouge à tête bleu" or "Guépier de Nubie" that had been described and illustrated in 1779 by French polymath Comte de Buffon in his multi-volume book ''Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux''. Buffon had been provided with a picture drawn by the Scottish ...
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