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371. Purple-crested Turaco
(Purplecrested lourie ) (Tauraco porphyreolophus porphyreolophus)
Siswati: ligwalagwala
Common breeding resident in the middleveld, lowveld and Lubombos.
Malolotja Mantenga Mlawula
Malolotja Information:
Uncommon resident of lower riverine forest and woodland.
Mixed woodlands, thicket and thornveld
Forested gorges
Malolotja information from the Bird Checklist for Malolotja (printed in the late 1980's, sponsored by the Natural History Society of Eswatini), supplemented with information from Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa, 1985.
Checklist, comments and distribution information from the Eswatini Bird Atlas by Vincent Parker, digital data provided by the Avian Demography Unit, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town (http://www.aviandemographyunit.org). SiSwati names from SNTC and Big Game Parks.
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