Identifier: birdnotesns08fore (find matches)
Title: Bird notes
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Foreign Bird Club National British Bird and Mule Club
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Great Britain Periodicals
Publisher: Brighton : Foreign Bird Club : National British Bird and Mule Club
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ita paradisea (Barratt. 1878). error. IvKFERENCES. Singv. 6i. PI. 26. B.N. vi. 5. uncol. figs.c? ?. A.G.B.i.i88. Sh. iv.2i. B.S.A. i. 148. Russ. i. 2r2■ Raxge. South Africa to Bcnguela and Zambesia. This species is the southern representative of the Pin-tailed Whydah; the ranges of the two birds overlap in CapeColony. As a cage-bird it is (or rather was before the war)becoming rather better known with the somewhat more frequentimportation of South African lairds. Of its nest and eggs Shel-ley says nothing, but Stark writes that, although he had neverfound a nest, he believed that each female built a separate onein the long grass, the cock not interfering, beyond keepingwatch and ward. Mouritz. who in the Ibis for 1916 (p. 556)describes the birds of the Matopos, speaks of each male goingabout with 10 to 12 dusky followers. He also failed in spiteof diligent search to find any nests and asks whether thisspecies may not share the parasitical habits of the Pin-tailedWhydah. 238 Whydahs.
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Sliaft-tailed Whydah(Tetrae>mra irgia). Why daks. ztj^j Mr. Tescheniaker in A.M. 1910. writes (p. 90J that he hadbeen informed that this species had been bred in confinement bya (jerman residing in Sydney( AustraHa). -^ FISCHERS SHAFT-TAILED WHYDAH.Linura fischeri. (H.L. v. 409). Synonomy. IILlnnra f.schcri. Reichen. 1882. Vidua fischeri. (Shelley. 1886).Range. N.E. and E. Africa. Referknci.s. Reiclieiiow. I. fur Ornith. i^Sj. PI. ii. fig. i.Sh. iv. 13. This Whydah appears to be unknown as a cage-bird andI also find but little recorded on its wild life,—of the nest andeggs, nil. Its chief difference from the Pin-tailed and Shaft-tailed VVhydahs is that the four narrow elongated tail feathersare in this species buff, not black. -^ PARADISE WHYDAH. Steganura paradisca. (H.L. v. 409). Synonomy. I Paradise Widow. * Widow of Paradise. Whidah Bird (Lth). * Whidaw Widow. * Widah Bunting. * Red-breasted Long-tailed Finch (Edw). Broad-shafted Whidah Bird. * Broad-shafted Whydah-finch (Sw)

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