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CRIMSON-SIIOULDERED CATERPILLAR-CATCHER. 
Campephaga plioenicia, 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 phaenicia, Latham Spnop. 146, 10, male. — Red- 
winged Chatterer of authors, the male. — Turdus pheeni- 
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 phosnicia of Linnaian writers, and the 
new Turdus phcenicopterus of M. Temminck, to 
neither of which genera it has any connexion. 
While the female has been mistaken by all writers 
for the Echenilleur jaune of Le Vaillant, 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- 
