Guillaume Michel Jérôme Meiffren Laugier [SEP] native language
Guillaume Michel Jérôme Meiffren Laugier
Guillaume Michel Jérôme Meiffren Laugier (28 September 1772 – 27 September 1843) was a French ornithologist.
The call is a loud "wheeoo".
The closely related Drakensberg rockjumper, "Chaetops aurantius", does not overlap in range. The male of that species has orange underparts, and the female and young are paler below than the rufous rock-jumper.
Taxonomy.
"Chaetops aurantius" was described in 1838 by Coenraad Jacob Temminck and Guillaume Michel Jérôme Meiffren Laugier in Volume 3 of "Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux".
Some authorities (notably Dickinson and Christidis) treat the two rockjumpers as