Identifier: monographofweave00bart (find matches)
Title: A monograph of the weaver-birds, Ploceidand arboreal and terrestrial finches, Fringillid
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bartlett, Edward, d. 1908
Subjects: Weaverbirds Finches
Publisher: Maidstone : Published by the author
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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add Mr. W. T. Blanfords notes— I saw this bird only on theAnseba. It is quite Starling-like in its habits and flight, and belongs, Ithink, to this family rather than to the FringilUdce. I frequently saw itassociating with Lamprotornis cencus, Lamprocolius chahjhceiis^ L. chrysogaster,hunting for insects on the ground, especially about cattle pens. Themassive nests are not unlike those of Sturnojmster contra. All which Isaw were in high Acacia-trees, but the breeding season was over longbefore July. The plant in this plate is Tinnea cethiopica from Tropical Africa.Specimens examined. fo. Sex. MU3. Locality. Length. Wing. Tail. Tars. Culm. 1 $ E. B. (?) 97 50 4-3 1-25 10 2 (?) E. B. Bogos, Abyssinia (Jesse). 9-55 5-0 4-35 12 0-95 3 2 E. B. Senegal 8-5 4-45 4-0 1-1 085 4 ? G. E. Shelley. N.E. Africa (Eotschy). 8-6 4-45 4-15 1-1 0-9 5 jun. G. E. Shelley. Anseba (Esler). 8-8 425 3-75 10 0-8 The figures (Plate IV. fig. 1. 11) are taken from Nos, 1 and 3, inmy collection, f size. PI. III.
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