Identifier: birdsofafricacom03shel (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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verts, and the outermostgreater coverts blackish brown, like the primary coverts and quills, withrufous buff edges, much broader on the inner secondaries. Tail slaty brownwith narrow pale brown edges to the feathers. Cheeks, ear-coverts, fronthaf of neck, breast and under tail-coverts yellowish buff; in front of eyes,chin, and a broad central band down the throat black ; crop and sides ofthe body shaded with ash. Iris brown ; bill black ; tarsi and feet palebrown (A. E. Pease). Total length 52 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-7, tail2-1, tarsus, 0-65. <?, 16. 1. 97. Somali (Lort Phillips). The Berbera Sparrow inhabits Somaliland. This species is, up to the present time, known only fromthe northern portion of Somali, for the locality Gaboonon a specimen in the Paris Museum is certainly incorrect.Referring to the type, Speke wrote: This specimen wasshot on the plateau, amongst a large flock, The plateau probably refers to the first plateau-land on leaving Berbera. J Pi< oin Q Sw KH t*^s
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0) =J p. OJ -p Ph o p; b cd cu -IJ 1—1 m OJ d rJ^ o m ^. cu in m cd Qh (N J PASSER HISPANIOLENSIS. 235 Mr. Lort Phillips writes: This beautiful little Sparrowrepresents in Berbera our common bird at home. Its habitsand note are almost identical with those of the latter. InJanuary they were very busy nest-building, carrying longstreamers of grass, &c., to holes in the wall under theverandah-roof. Mr. Pease only met with the species on thecoast at Zaila, and in the British Museum there are twospecimens from the same town procured by Captain C. G.Nurse. Passer hispaniolensis. Pringilla hispaniolensis, Temm. Man. Orn. p. 353 (1820). Passer hispaniolensis, Belle, J. f. 0. 1856, p. 31 Cape Verde Is. ; Sharpe,Cat. B. M. xii. p. 317 (1888) Cape Verde Is. Nubia; Shelley,B. Afr. I. No. 260 (1896). Fringilla salicicola, Vieill. Faune France, p. 417 (1828). Passer salicicola, Alexander, Ibis, 1898, pp. 83, 92, lOi, 115, 280 CapeVerde Is. Pyrgita salicaria, Bp. Consp. List, B. Eur. and N. Am

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