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Merops orientalis ceylonicus
Savannah like grassland.
I saw this little guy while stopped to view mugger crocodiles in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka.
You are absolutely right, when I was i.d-ing it, I mistook it for a bee-eater that lives in my local region of northeast Asia.
Blue throated do not have Green heads...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-throat...
This should be Green Bee-eater...Beludschicus race...