The Birds of South Africa a Descriptive Catalogue of All the Known Species Occ
The Birds of South Africa a Descriptive Catalogue of All the Known Species Occ
Edgar Leopold Layard
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R is silent and retired in its habits, creeping about in search of its prey. AMPELID^K. 153 297. Campephaga Phoenicea. (Lath. ) Swain. , Nat. Lib. , Vol. 11, p. 252 ; Ampelis Phoenicia, Lath. ; Turdus Phcenicopterus, Temm. , PL Col. 71 ; Hartl. , Orn. W. Af. , p. 98 ; Tanagra Dubia, Shaw. , Nat. MisceL, PL 252 ; Ceblephrys Melanoxantha, Licht. 6 Glossy blue-black ; shoulders crimson. 9, above brown, with black bars tipped with white, and yellow-margined quill- feathers ; beneath white, with bla...ck spots. Length, 8" ; wing, 4". Hartlaub, loc. Cit. , gives this as a Cape bird, on the authority of M. Verreaux. Mr. G. It. Gray, in his Genera of Birds, makes it equal to C Flavus of Temminck and L' Echenilleur. Jaune of Le Yaillant, PL 164. This last I know to be the 9 of C. Niger of Vieillot. A crimson- shouldered bird I have never seen in South Africa. 298. Campephaga Xanthornoides, Lesson ; Ann. Des. Sci. Nat, 1858, p. 169. GENERAL colour, shining blue-black ; shoulders bright yellow. Length, 8" ; wing, 4" 2'" ; tail, 3" 6'".
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