Black-backed puffback, Dryoscopus cubla. (Puff-backed bush shrike, Malaconotus mollissimus.) Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William John Swainson from his Birds of Western Africa in Sir William Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library: Ornithology, Lizars, Edinburgh, 1837.

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