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CRIMSON-SHOULDERED CATERPILLAR-CATCHER. 



Campepliaga phcenicia, SWAINS. 

 PLATE XXVII. (Male.) PLATE XXVIII. (Female.) 



Glossy blue-black, shoulders crimson ; Male. Above brown, 

 with black bars tipt with white and yellow margined 

 quill- feathers ; beneath white with black spots ; Female. 



Ampelis phcenicia, Latham Synop. 146, 10, male. Red- 

 winged Chatterer of authors, the male Turdus phreni- 

 copterus, PI. Col. 71, the male. 



THE difference between the sexes of this little 

 known species is so remarkable, that but for the 

 proof we can adduce of the fact, their identity 

 could scarcely have been credited. No two birds, 

 in short, can be more differently coloured ; and it is 

 therefore not surprising that their scientific history 

 is involved in confusion. Into this, however, we 

 shall not enter ; it will be sufficient to observe, in 

 this place, that in the male we may identify the 

 old Ampelis phoenicia of Linnaean writers, and the 

 new Turdus phoenicopterus of M. Temminck, to 

 neither of which genera it has any connexion. 

 While the female has been mistaken by all writers 

 for the Echenitteur jaune of Le Yaillant, a bird 

 which again is not a distinct species, but the other 

 sex of the Echenilleur noir of the same writer. 

 We make this statement from having had an op- 



