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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h the edge of the bend of the wing bright yellow. Iris dark steel blue; bill, upper mandible black, lower one brownish grey; feet dark grey. Total length 9 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3-5, tail 5-0, tarsus 0-95. $, 11. 7. 02.S. Abyssinia (Degen). It closely resembles C. macrourus in all its other plumages. Adult female. Wing 3-3, tail 2-4. Male in winter. Upper mandible reddish brown, lower one lighter ; legs brown. Lichenstein's Yellow-shouldered Whydah inhabits the Abyssinian district. The most southern range known to me for this species is Baroma (9° N. lat.) ; here Lord Lovat met with it associating with G. laticaudus in flocks. Heuglin found it common in Tigre and near Adowa in large flocks, at elevations between 4,000 and 7,000 feet, and also saw it in the country surrounding Gondar, where Rüppell procured the type of C. flaviscapulatus. He records their flight as not powerful, the note as a melancholy pipe, and remarks that when alarmed they hide among _ THE BIRDS OF AFRICA.PL.XXIX. ^3^
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l.Pyromelana ladoensis.2.Coliuspasser soror. COLIUSPASSER SOROR 53 the reeds which grow abundantly in the marshy districts they naturally frequent. Coliuspasser soror. (PL 29, fig. 2.) Penthetria soror, Reichen. J. f. 0. 1887, p. 70 Kawanga. Coliuspasser soror, Shelley, B. Afr. 1. No. 326 (1896); Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 138 (1904). Penthetriopsis soror, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 223 (1890). Male in breeding plumage. Black with the lesser wing-coverts lemon yellow. Iris brown; bill with the upper mandible black and the lower one horny blue with a black base. Total length 76 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3-2, tail 4-0, tarsus 0-9. $ , 24. 6. 90. Kavirondo (Jackson). Female, immature male and adult male in winter plumage. Similar to those of C. macrourus. Bill, upper mandible pale olive brown, lower one whitish horn colour; feet pale fleshy brown with a bluish shade. Reichenow's Yellow-shouldered Whydah inhabits the country to the east of the northern half of Victoria Nyanza. This is a smal

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