Oates, Matabele Land
Matabele Land
Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls. A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Interior of South Africa. From the Letters & Journals of the Lates Frank Oates, F.R.G.S. Edited by C.G. Oates, B.A.
London, C. Kegan Paul & Co. (1881). Octavo.
6 chromolithograph and 10 lithograph (A--H, J--K) plates. There is no "Plate "I"" in the sequence.
Keulemans: 2.
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Plate A. Saxicola shelleyi.
This form of chat was first described by R(ichard) Bowdler Sharpe in Edgar Leopold Layard's The Birds of South Africa (part iv, (1877), pp. 246, 819). A vernacular name "Shelley's Wheat-ear" was also introduced for it. More recent authors have assigned this name to Myrmecocichla arnotti (Ripley in Mayr and Paynter, Check-list of Birds of the World, Volume X).
Plate B. Bradyornis oatesii.
Part II of the Appendix of Matabele Land included the section "Ornithology," prepared also by Sharpe (pp. 294--328). Sharpe first described this species of flycatcher herein (314--315) and introduced a vernacular name for it, "Oates's Wood-Shrike." More recently, authors have assigned this name to Bradornis (or Melaenornis) pallidus murinus (Roberts, The Birds of South Africa).