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28 January 2018

Sunday Stamps II - 163

1981, Ciskei

Under Apartheid, Ciskei was designated as one of the 'homelands' for the Xhosa speaking people of South Africa. The Maxronyx capensis, or Cape longclaw, is found in coastal and mountain grasslands of Southern Africa and can often be found standing on top of stones or clumps of grass. This stamp shows a male with his bright orange throat and yellow underparts.

for the letter Y - yellow


5 comments:

Joy said...

Oh wow long claw indeed. Lovely colours.

Bob Scotney said...

Great stamp that you could have used for X as well.

Ana said...

Lovely bird stamp! Funny, at first I thought this was an x-related post :)

John's Island said...

Hi Violet, Your stamps are so cool. I plan to focus on the stamps on some of my old postcards and link up with you here. Thanks for sharing and have a great week ahead. John

FinnBadger said...

Very handsome stamp for today. Great X connections.