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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Touty" data-source="post: 4097659" data-attributes="member: 3725">Ciao a tutti, belli e brutti!Saturday morning and miserable cold wet weather so I decided to spend a fascinating Saturday morning in the warmth of the museum working on a couple of very interesting trays I'd brought up from the stores late on Friday afternoon.Some great finds amidst the dross including an adult White-winged Cliff-chat (Thamnolaea semirufa) <img src="http://home.xnet.it/tout/white-winged_chat.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />...and a Rueppell's Chat (Myrmecocichla melaena)... both 'Abyssinian' endemics.<img src="http://home.xnet.it/tout/Rueppells_chat.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />and a pair of magnificent Satin Bowerbirds from Queensland<img src="http://home.xnet.it/tout/satin_bowerbird.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />As well as few birds I haven't yet identified. The first is this very odd-looking bird that I recognise but I can't place to identify, it's about the size of a Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) but with a longer tail:<img src="http://home.xnet.it/tout/mystery_bird18a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Metallic Starling (Aplonis metallica)the second half of the blog is in <a href="http://www.birdforum.net/blog.php?b=977" target="_blank">'Another rainy Saturday #2</a>.</blockquote>