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7. CAMPOPHAGA. Type. 



Campephaga, Vieill. Analyse, p. 39 (181G) C. nigra. 



Volvicivora, Ilodgs. Lid. 'Review, i. p. 328 (1837) . . C. melaschista. 

 Lanicterus, Lesson, Ann. Sci. Nat. (2) ix. p. 169 



(1838) C. xanthornoides. 



Cyrtes, JReichenh. Syst. Nat. pi. Ixviii. fig. 11 (1850). 



Bmu/e. Africa : India and Burmese countries to South China. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Entire plumage metallic or glossy steel- 



gi-een or purplish, both above and below, 

 with sometimes a yellow or red shoulder- 

 spot. 

 a'. With a shoulder-patch of yellow or scarlet 

 wing-coverts. 



o". Shoulder-patch scarlet phcenicea, p. 59. 



b". Shoulder-patch yellow. 



a'". All the least and median wing-coverts 



orange xanthornoides, p. 60. 



b'". Only the least and outer median wing- 

 coverts lemon-yellow hartlauhi, p. 62. 



b '. Without any shoulder-patch. 



c". Below steel-^reen like the up})er surface niyra, p. 62. 

 d". Throat and breast piurpUsh violet, con- 

 trasting with the rest of the upper 

 surface, which is steel-blue quiscalina, p. 63. 



b. Plumage iron-grey or light ashy grey above 



and below, without metalUc gloss. 

 c'. Under tail-coverts slaty grey like the rest 



of the under surface ; centre tail-fea- I lugiihris, p. 65. 



thers black like the rest of the tail \ intermedia, p. 66. 



( saturata, p. 66. 

 d'. Under tail-coverts white ; centre tail-fea- 

 thers grey, blackish towards the tips. 

 e". Wings black, contrasting with the back. 



^^ , . , .„ , , i mclanoptei-a S i P- 67. 



c'". No white on the quiUs below j neykcta, p. 68. 



d"'. Middle primaries with a large ovate 



spot of white on the inner webs . . melanoptera $ , p. 67. 

 /". Wings grey; quiUs black, externally 

 grey ; all the wing-coverts grey_ ; inner 

 webs of piimaries broadly white .... polioptera, p. 69. 



1. Campophaga phcenicea. 



Red-winged Chatterer, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. p. 146. 



Ampelis phosnicea. Lath. Lid. Orn. i. p. 367. 



Tanagra dubia, Shaw, Nat. Misc. vii. pi. 252. 



Tiu-dus phojnicopterus, Temrn. PI. Col. ii. pi. 71. 



Ceblepyris phcenicopterus. Less. Traits, p. 369; Isid.Geoff. St.-Hilaire, 



Maq. de Zool. 1832, pi. 9. 

 Campephaga phrenicea, Sioaim. B. W. Afr. i. p. 252, pis. 27, 28 ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 283; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 61; Hartl. 



Orn. W.-Afr. p. 98 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 153 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 336, no. 6060; Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 189; Finsch, Tr. Z. S. 



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