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1. Dryoscopus ruficeps = Laniarius ruficeps
2. Telephonus jamesi = Tchagra jamesi
Identifier: ibis35brit (find matches)
Title: Ibis
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: British Ornithologists' Union
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals
Publisher: (London) Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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d the three pairs of outer tail-feathers have broadwhite tips; entire underparts white, very faintly tinted withrufous on the flanks and thighs; under wing-coverts white,with the outer ones near the edge of the wing black, and alarge dusky patch ; under surface of the quills black, broadlyedged with white on their inner webs towards their base;iris brown; bill black; legs dark grey. Total length 7 inches,culmen 0*7, wing 3, tail 3*4, tarsus IlS. Hab. Somali-land. Shot on the 2nd of January and seen on a few occasionsafterwards. Iris brown, bill black, feet grey. 27. Laniarius cruentus. Lanius cruentus, Hempr. & Ehr. Symb. Phys. 1828, fol. c,pi. 3. Laniarius cruentus, Speke, Ibis, 1860, p. 247 (Somali);Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 354; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit.Mus. viii. p. 152. Dryoscopus cruentus, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 462. Hab. E. Africa, from about 15° N. lat. to Somali-land. Rather scarce : only seen on the plateau. Male—irisbrown, bill black, legs grey. Itis.l885,ri X
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j.G.feuicmansiib. i.DRYOSCOPUS RUFICEP5 2.TELEPH0NUS JAM EST. Collection of Birds from Somali-land. 403 28. Telephonus jamesi^ sp. ii. (Plate X. fig. 2.) Upper parts brownish ash; a broad black band down thecentre of the forehead, crown, and nape; a black band fromthe lores through the eye to over the ear-coverts; sides ofthe forehead and crown fading almost into white, formingan indistinct eyebrow ; wing-coverts and broad outer edgesto the quills chestnut, a few of the outer wing-coverts ashybrown, externally margined with white; edges of the wingwhite, remainder of the quills dark brown j tail, two centrefeathers brownish ash obsoletely barred, remainder black,with broad white ends, broadest towards the outer pair offeathers, wdiich have also the greater portion of the end halfof the outer web white ; cheeks, throat, abdomen, and undertail-coverts white, shading into pale brownish ash on the ear-coverts, chest, and flanks ; under wing-coverts whitish ash ;under surface of the quills

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