Eulacestoma nigropectus Identifier: ibis841904brit (
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The IbisYear:
1859 (
1850s)Authors:
British Ornithologists' UnionSubjects:
BirdsPublisher:
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view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:of the head, only the margins of the feathers being white in winter-dress, or the black feathers of the sides of neck partly white in the hybrids O. brandti X 0. penicillata, forming a very incomplete and narrow white band. I. Vinous-red or lilac colour of the nape not extending over the back, which is always distinctly streaked, the shaft-streaks being more or less covered by the adjacent feathers only in the winter-dress. Wing, r( 48o-4-75-4-o5, $ 4-3o-4-00 in.—Hab. Alps of Balkan Peninsula, Caucasus, Persia, and Turkestan. (scriba Bp., 1850; albigula Bp., 1850; larvata Filippi, 1863; pallida et diluta Sharpe, 1890; bal- canica Reichw., 1895; transcaspica Floiicke, 1898; iranica Zarud. & Harms., 190J; oreodroma Ober- hols., 1902.) O. penicillata (Gould), 1837. /. Vinous-red or lilac colour of the occiput and napeextending over the back, which is almost uniform.Wing, c