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6. Dilophus carunculatus. Wattled Starling. 



Gracula carunculata, Gen. Syst. Nat. i, p. 399 (1788). 



Le Porte-Lambeaux, Levaill. Ois. ft Afr. ii, p. 178, pis. 193, 194 (1799). 



Dilophus carunculatus, Eilpp. Syst. Uebers. p. 76 (1845) ; Gray, Gen. 

 B. ii, p. 336, fig. (1847) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 177 (1867) ; Gurney 

 in Andersson's B. Damara Land, p. 162 (1872) ; Holub and Pelzeln, 

 Orn. Siidafr. p. 108 (1882) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard' s B. S. Afr. pp. 421, 

 845 (1884) ; id. Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 61 (1890) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 46 

 (1896). 



" Locust Bird " of English Colonists. 



Dilophus carunculatus (old male in breeding plumage}. 



Description. Old male in breeding plumage. Entire head, face, 

 and throat, bare of feathers ; the skin bright yellow ; two erect 

 fleshy wattles on the crown, and a pendent lappet in the centre of 

 the throat, black ; entire body pale drab ; wing-coverts lighter ; 

 primary coverts, quills, and tail-feathers black ; under wing and 

 tail-coverts pale drab. 



Iris brown ; bill yellow ; feet flesh-colour. 



Length 8-75; wing 4*75; tail 3-00 ; tarsus 1-20 ; culmenl-00. 



In the specimen figured the wattles are unusually large and well 

 developed. 



