Description
English: Bee-eater (as Merops apiaster Linn.). Image from Natural History, Birds.
Date 1849
Source https://archive.org/details/NaturalHistoryBirds
Author Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Henry_Gosse
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Natural_History,_Birds_-_Bee-eater.jpg

The European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. The genus name Merops is Ancient Greek for "bee-eater", and apiaster is Latin, also meaning "bee-eater", from apis, "bee".