Identifier: birdsofafricacom41shel (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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fine freshly plucked grass. The eggs, four in number,were white and measured 06 x 0-45. In the British Museum there are specimens from Dakar onCape Verde, Gambia, Gold Coast, Niger, Wadelai, Lado andFashoda. In the Gold Coast Colony Ussher procured specimens fromDenkera, and Mr. Alexander met with it at Karaga and Krachi.Forbes found it on several occasions at Shonga on the Niger,which is the most southern range yet recorded for the species.It appears to be entirely replaced on Fernando Po and inCamaroons by E. occidentalis; but the present species occursalong the Upper White Nile, in Kordofan, Senaar and SouthernNubia. According to Mr. Hawker it is never very commonat Fashoda, and Heuglin met with it in North-east Africaonly during the early spring from January to May, when itappeared to him to live a roving life and was generally in large,closely packed flocks, at times descending, with harsh pipingnotes, to rest on the tufts of high grass or bushes. THE BIRDS OF AFRICA. PL. XXXII.
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^*wp l.Estrilda rKodopyga.2.3. » vin.SLCeSL. ESTRILDA RUFIBARBA 205 Estrilda rufibarba. Habropyga rufibarba, Cat. Mus. Hein. i. p. 169 (1851) Arabia. Estrilda rufibarba, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 394 (1890); Shelley B. Afr. I. No. 401 (1896) ; Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 182 (1904).Estrelda buccalis, Licht. Nomencl. p. 48 (1854) Arabia. Adults. Upper parts barred with pale ashy brown and dark brown, thebars diminishing in width on the crown, the forepart of which and the fore-head are uniform dark ashy brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts jet black ;tail brownish black, the two outermost pairs of feathers with their outeredges white, imperfectly barred with dusky brown; primaries and outersecondaries uniform brown; a crimson band extends back from the uppermandible round the eye and over the ear-coverts; cheeks, ear-coverts, chinand upper throat white ; remainder of the under parts buff, with narrowdusky brown bars on the lower throat, chest and flanks. Iris red; billreddish black, w

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