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28. AMYDRUS. 



Typo. 

 Aniydi'us, Cal). 3fus. Hein. Tli. i. p. I'Ol (1850) A. morio. 



Range. Confined to Africa. 



A'ey to the Species. 



a. No ashy "jrey on the head, which is glossy purplish 



or greenish black. [Males.] 

 a'. Under surface of body glossy purplisli or blue- 

 black. 

 a". Much larger : wing .5'.3-6-.3 inches ; under 

 surface blue-black. 

 a" . Dusky band at the end of the first long 

 primary ill-detiued, the rufous extending 



nearly to the end of the feather tuorio, p. lUl. 



b'". Dusky end to the first long primaiy sharply 

 defined and extending for more than one 



third of the feather hlythii, p. 164. 



b". Much smaller : wing 5 inches ; imder surface 



of body glossy purplish black waJleri, p. 164. 



b'. Under surface of body glossy dark green f rater, p. 164. 



b. Witli ashy grey on the head. [Females.] 



c'. Hinder head and throat with blacli centres to the 

 feathers ; rufous on second primary- as in the 



male mvrio, p. 162. 



d' . Hind head and throat uniform grey ; terminal 

 tliird of second primary entirely blackish, 

 c". Head pearly grey all round; size larger; 



wing over 6 inches blytldi, p. 164. 



d" . Head iron-grey all round ; smaller; wing 4'8 



inches walleri, p. 165, 



1. Amydrus morio. 



Le Merle du Cap de Bonne Esperauce, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 309, pi. xxiij. 



fig. 2 (1760) ; Dcmbent. PL Enl. iv. pi. 199. 

 Turdus morio, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 297 (1766) ; Gtn. Si/st. Nat. i. 



p. 835 (1788); Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 6U3 (1823). 

 Le Jaunoir du Cap de Bonne Espi^rance, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iij. 



p. 366 (1775). 

 African Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 55 (1783). 

 Le Roupenne, LcvaiU. Ois. d'Afr. ii. p. 134, pis. 83, 84 (1801) ; Stin^ 



dev. Crit. vm Levaill. p. 33 (1857). 

 Sturnus morio, Duudin, Triiitc, ii. p. 307 (1800). 

 Corvus rutipennis, Shaiu, Gen. Zuol. vii. p. 373 (1800), 

 Lamprotoruis morio, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 18 (1823) ; liiipp. Neue 



Wirb. p. 25 (1835-40); id. Sy.st. Uebers. p. 75 (1845); Hew/l. 



Si/st. Uebers. p. 37 (1856). 

 Lamprotoruis rufipennis, Swains. An. in Merun/. p. 298 (1837). 

 Juida morio, Grai/. Gen. />. ii. p. 327 (1846); Gurney, Ibis, ls62, 

 ■ p. 28; Lai/ard', B. 8. Afr. p. 173 (1867); Grai/, Ilajid-l. B. ii. 



p. 25, no. 0357 (1870) ; At/res, Ibis, 1879, p. 398. 

 Astrapia morio, Bh/t/i, Cat. B. Mas. As. Soc. p. 112 (1849). 

 Spreo morio, Bj>. Cunsp. i. p. 416 (1850). 

 Amvdrus morio. Cab. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 201 (1850) ; Grill, Zoul. 



J»^rtA«. pp. 10, 37 (1859); Hurtl. J.f. 0.1859, p. 30; Sharpe, 



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