black-headed bee-eater (Merops breweri) Description
Merops breweri (cropped and flipped from original plate for Cassin by Otto Koehler)
Date 1859
Source Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Author Otto Koehler
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meropogon_breweri.jpg
The black-headed bee-eater (Merops breweri) is a species of bird in the family Meropidae. It is found in forests in tropical Central and West Africa, its range including Angola, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Sudan.
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Meropidae
Genus: Merops
Species: Merops breweri (Cassin, 1859)
