The natural arrangement and relations of the family of flycatchers, or muscicapidae / Illustrated by thirty-three coloured plates, with portrait and memoir of Baron Haller.

  • William Swainson
Date:
1838
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The natural arrangement and relations of the family of flycatchers, or muscicapidae / Illustrated by thirty-three coloured plates, with portrait and memoir of Baron Haller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    112/396 (page 102)
    MOCKING WATER-CHAT. Fluvicola nengeta, Swains. PLATE VIII. ITpper plumage, breast, and tip of the tail, cinereous; wings and tail black ; primary quills with a band of pure white at their base ; ears and maxillary stripe varied with grey and black ; throat and body beneath, wdiite. Lanius nengeta, Linn. Auct.—Musclcapa polyglotta, Spix, ii. I BELIEVE that this common bird is one out of three species, of three different genera, that com- pose the Lanius nmyeta of Dr. Latham and his followers. One of these appears to he the Grey Pie of Edwards, Plate 318, which is unquestionably a mocking thrush of the genus Oiyheus; the se- cond is some species of true Skrike (Lanius) found in Russia; and the third is the present bird. Dr. Latham has still further generalized his ideas of his Laniics nengeta., by actually ]dacing with it, as va- rieties, two other species of true Lanius, one of which we have elsewhere shonn to he nominal. To unravel such a comjdication of errors is next to an• they meet us in every page of our PI. 24.