Merops viridissimus viridissimus Swainson, 1837

LITERATURE. — Bannerman (1931); Green & Sayer (1979); Holyoak & Seddon (1989); Thonnérieux et al. (1989); Dowsett (1993); Balanca & de Visscher (1997); Mauvais (1998); Borrow & Demey (2001, 2014); Portier (2002c); Thiollay (2006a); Balanca et al. (2007); Sinclair & Ryan (2010); Pavia et al. (2012); Dowsett et al. (2013).

MUSEUM MATERIAL. — SMF 5344, 13155.

FIELD DATA. — eBird; GBIF; WABD; XC.

STATUS. — Resident; Breeding.

REMARK. — Usually treated as conspecific with M. orientalis Latham, 1801, which is now considered an Asian endemic (del Hoyo & Collar 2014).