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Speckled mousebird (Colius striatus)
Subject: Speckled mousebird (Colius striatus)
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Speckled mousebird (Colius striatus)


Subspecies C. s. leucotis (right), and C. s. affinis (left); illustration by Joseph Smit, 1892

Description
1. (right) Colius leucotis Rüpp. = Colius striatus leucotis Rüppell, 1839
2. (left) Colius affinis Shelley = Colius striatus affinis Shelley, 1885
English: Speckled Mousebird (leucotis subspecies group)
Date 1886
Source Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum (Vol. 17 Plate XII) http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofbirds17brit
Author
Joseph Smit (1836–1929) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smit
Ernst Hartert (text)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ColiusSmit.jpg

The speckled mousebird (Colius striatus) is the largest species of mousebird, as well as one of the most common. It is distributed from Cameroon east to Eritrea and Ethiopia, south through eastern Africa to southern South Africa. Order: Coliiformes, Family: Coliidae.

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