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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er again sawthese birds return to the tree where they had first commencedbuilding, having, he suggests, possibly been scared away fromthe tree by a colony of ants or a snake they may havediscovered among the boughs. The eggs were uniform bluishgreen. Drs. Reichenow and Liihder found the species bi-eeding incolonies near Abokobi, and remark that the nests were of anoval form, hung from reeds and bamboos at an elevation offrom 5 to 20 feet, and the eggs, two in number, were pale blueand measured 092 x 064 Mr. Boyd Alexander obtained tliespecies at Pong, and writes: Breeds in May. The nests,constructed of coarse grass-blades and lined with freshleaves, are suspended underneath the fronds of the palm-treesin damp situations. A large number may be found together.Both males and females share in the incubation. They werenot breeding in February and March, when I found them fre-quenting the thick forests around Abrobonko near Cape Coast,and at Abouri in the Aguapim district. Ussher considered
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CINKAMOPTERYX TRICOLOU 359 them to be very common in Fautee, geneially frequenting thebamboo and cane-brakes, where hundreds of their pendentnests were to be seen. He also procured specimens at theVolta River. In Togoland Mr. Baumann found it known tothe natives at Logba as the Karue, and in Dahome, accord-ing to Mr. Francis Newton, it was known at Passe as the Cangole. In the Niger district specimens have beencollected at Onitscha (Forbes), Axim (Hartert), and LowerNiger (Ansorge). From further south it is known to me onlyfrom Gaboon (Aubrey Lecomte) and Landana (Lucan andPetit). Cinnamopteryx tricolor. (Pi. 38.) Hyphantornis tricolor, Hartl. J. f. O., 1854, p. 110 Sierra Leone. Cinnamopteryx tricolor, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 471 (1890); Shelley,B. Afr. I. No. 567 (1896). Hyphantornis fuscocastanea, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1880, p. 58 Loema B. Ploceus fuscocastaneus, Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 53 (1904). Ploceus rufoniger, Eeichen. Om. Monatsb. 1893, p. 29 Kinjaivanga. Adult. Upper p

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