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Burchell's Coucal

Centropus burchellii   Gewone vleiloerie
Centropus burchellii Swainson, 1838 (1837), Anim. Menag., p321; S Africa= Cape Province. burchellii = after naturalist andexplorer, William Burchell (1778-1863).
1. C. b. burchellii; 2. C. b. fasciipygialis.
References

CONCISE REFERENCES: 1. Andersson 1995 2. Brooke et al. 1990 3. Dean 1971 4. East London Museum (unpubl data) 5. Fraser 1968 6. Herremans & Vernon 1997 7. Irwin 1981 8. Jackson 1988 9. Lawson 1962 10. McCulloch 1971 11. NERCS (unpubl. data); 12. Northern Flagship Institution (unpubl data) 13. Rowan 1952 14. Rowan 1983 15. SAFRING (unpubl data) 16. Skead 1995 17. Tarboton et al. 1987 18. Vernon CJ (unpubl data).

COMPLETE REFERENCES: 1. Andersson M 1995 Evolution of reversed sex roles, sexual size dimorphism, and mating system in coucals (Centropidae, Aves). Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 54:173-181 2. Brooke RK, Crowe TM, Chambal MS 1990 Copulatory behaviour in Burchell's Coucal Centropus burchellii. Ostrich 61:87 3. Dean WRJ 1971 Breeding data for the birds of Natal and Zululand. Durban Mus. Novit. 9:59-91 5. Fraser K 1968 Friendly Birds. Bokmakierie 20:93-95 6. Herremans M, Vernon CJ 1997 Burchell's and Whitebrowed Coucals. In: Harrison JA et al. (eds). The Atlas of Southern African Birds. Vol. 1:572-573. BirdLife South Africa, Johannesburg 7. Irwin MPS 1981 The Birds of Zimbabwe. Quest Publishing, Salisbury 8. Jackson HD 1988 Avifaunal survey of the Mutare Municipal area VI. Further Mutare specimens in the collections of the Natural History Museum, Bulawayo, and the Mutare Museum. Arnoldia Zimbabwe 9(31):431-438 9. Lawson WJ 1962 Variation in the South African populations of the Coucal Centropus superciliosus Hemprich and Ehrenberg. Ostrich 33:45-47 10. McCulloch D 1971 Broken wing act by Burchell's Coucal Centropus supercilliosus. Albatross 196:2 13. Rowan MK 1952 Notes and records. Promerops 3:2-3 14. Rowan MK 1983 The Doves, Parrots, Louries and Cuckoos of Southern Africa. David Philip, Cape Town 16. Skead CJ 1995 Life-History Notes on East Cape Bird Species, 1940-1990. Vol. 1. Algoa Regional Services Council, Port Elizabeth 17. Tarboton WR, Kemp MI, Kemp AC 1987 Birds of the Transvaal. Transvaal Museum, Pretoria.

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