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Identifier: birdsofafricacom52shel (find matches)
Title: The birds of Africa, comprising all the species which occur in the Ethiopian region
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Shelley, G. E. (George Ernest), 1840-1910 Sclater, W. L. (William Lutley), 1863-1944 Grönvold, Henrik, 1858-1940
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Published for the author by R.H. Porter (18 Princes Street, Cavendish Square, W.)
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d and her young at Mulema and a fullplumaged male in south-west Ankole in southern Uganda. Examples in the British Museum from the followinglocalities have been examined:— Zululand—Ntambana Hills (Grant); Transvaal—Wood-bush, Klein Letaba, and Legogot (Grant), Holfontein (Gates),Kustenburg (Lucas), Swaziland (Buckley); Beclmanaland—Shoshong (Gates); German. South-west Africa—Ondonga andOvaquenyama (Andersson); Angola — Caconda (Anchieta)Galungo (Sale), Malange (Ansorge); Belgian Congo—•Kambove (Neave); South Rhodesia—Tati Eiver (Jameson),Salisbury (Marshall), Mazoe (Darling), Fort Chiquaqua(Sowerby), Eocky Drift (Clark); Portuguese East Africa—Cogumo, Beira (Grant), Tete (Kirk, Alexander, and Grant),Mapicuti (Cavendish); Nyasaland — Zomba, Fort Lister,Buwa, Luangwa (Whyte and Sharpe); German East Africa— Ugogo, Dar-es-Salaam, and Mamboio (Kirk); Uganda —Mulema and South-west Ankole (Doggett); British EastAfrica—Kitui (Hinde). THE BIRDS OF AFRICA, PL. L^/II.
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1. Prionops poliolophus. 2. Sigmodus mentalis. PRIONOPS POLIOLOPHA 481 Prionops poliolopha. (Pi. 57, fig. 1.) Prionops poliolophus, Finsch and Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1884, p. 180Naiivasha; Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 663 (1896); Eeichen. Vog.Afr. ii. p. 532 (1903); Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 273 (1903). Similar to P. iJoliocephala, but larger and with the head crested; on thefront half of the head the feathers are bristle-like and whitish-grey, andcurve anteriorly over the base of the bill, posteriorly back to the base ofthe crest; the crest itself on the posterior half of the crown is short,about IO, and slaty-grey; a patch of black on either side of the breast nearthe crop; no bare wattle round the eye. Iris bright yellow ; eyelids black ;bill black; legs orange; claws black. Length 9-75 inches, wing 5-2, tail 4-0,culmen to frontal feathers 0-35, tarsus 0-95. Kedong River, 5 , 13. 12. 99(Lord Delamere). The Grey-crested Helmet-Shrike ranges from the Unyam-wesi country of German East Africa into

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