Identifier: birdsofafricacom42shel (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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single tree; they were usually about six or seven feet from the ground-level. Their eggs, which present every variation in colour between olive green and russet brown, are seldom in clutches of more than two, though once or twice I have taken three from a nest. The species has also been procured at Casamanse and Galam; but in the Niger district it is apparently entirely replaced by H. capitalis. The type of Ploceus duboisi, Hartl., which belongs to this species, formed part of Storms's Tanganyika collection, and I would suggest that the specimen may have been taken on board from the Senegambia coast, as I find no evidence for supposing the species to be a native of any other country. Regarding the moult. Dr. A. G. Butler kindly informs me that he had a live specimen out of colour in 1898, which soon acquired the full breeding plumage and retained it uninterruptedly for six years, up to last winter, when it passed into the duller plumage resembling that of the female. THE BIRDS OF AFRICA.PL.XL..

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1. Xanthophilus temporalis. 2. Hyphantornis nyasae.
HYPHANTORNIS NYASÆ 441
Hyphantornis nyasae. (Pl. 40, fig. 1.) Hyphantornis nyasae, Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 20 Zomba, Milanji; id. B. Afr. I. No. 552 (1896). Ploceus nyasae, Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 72 (1904). Ploceus fülleborni, Reichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1900, p. 99 Rupira.
Full plumaged male.
Entire head black ; neck all round golden yellow,the black of the chin not extending to the middle throat; binder neck shading into the uniform olive yellow of the back, upper tail-coverts, tail, lesser wing-coverts and outer edges of the other wing-feathers; inner margin of quills yellowish buff; under wing-coverts pale yellow; breast, thighs and under tail-coverts yellow like the neck. Total length 6.6 inches, culmen 0.8, wing 3.1, tail 2.3, tarsus 0.9. ♂, 8.92, Milanji Plains (A. Whyte).
Male, winter plumage.
Differing only in the absence of black on the head ; forehead and crown olive and the chin and under parts yellow; bill brown, i...

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