Thanks Laurent enjoying the third volume. Helped me find the OD of the Slender-billed Cicadabird,. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20060#page/229/mode/1up .
Valenciennes in 1826 used the same name for the pied shrikes from the Cape of Good Hope? (same taxa?)
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Valencienne's bird is from the Cape of Good Hope;...
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Valencienne treats Lanius collaris as ...
"Aide-naturaliste, puis professeur de zoologie au Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Paris. Administrateur du Muséum. Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (1833).
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Yes... I thought I had corrected it yesterday, actuallyLaurent, maybe a bit picky (again, sorry), but regarding the blue above ...![]()