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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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of the inner secondaries and the two outerprimaries ; wing-lining with the under coverts of the same shade ofcinnamon as the pale portion of the quills. Eyebrow, sides of head, andsides of upper neck buffy white, mottled with brown and black ; chinand upper throat white ; remainder of the under parts buff; crop slightlymottled with rufous and the flanks washed with dusky ash ; lower throatand crop with angular blackish shaft-spots, most numerous on the sides,where they form the usual fairly distinct black patch between the cropand the side of the neck ; a few indistinct shaft-stripes on the flanks andsome more sharply defined ones on the under tail-coverts. Iris hazel; billabove dark horny-brown, paler below ; legs pale. Total length 8-5 inches,cuhnen 0-7, wing 4-3, tail 35, tarsus 1-25. J , 21. 1. 99. Gadaburka (Lovat,Mus. Brit.). A specimen labelled <J , Smara, Feb. 2, 1900 (Lord Delamere), ismuch more rufous on the upper parts, crop and sides of chest. < o 2 o If) a -—I ww
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d (U B CD 1^ CN 41 MIRAFRA SHARPEI. 49 Reichenows Large Red-winged Lark inhabits East Africabetween 5° S. lat. and 10° N. lat. Bmin has procured five specimens at Baguera in Novembei,March and May, and Fischer found it distributed over BastAfrica from the Pangani to the Tana river, and remarked itshabit of perching upon bushes to sing; he collected specimensin German Bast Africa, between the Pare mountains and thePangani river, and at Usaramo and Sigerari, to the west ofKilimanjaro, and in British Bast Africa at Lake Naiwasha, anddiscovered the type at Kibaraja on the Tana river. Dr. Ansorgeobtained a specimen at the Voi river, and Dr. Ragazzi one inShoa, at Sodde, which is the most northerly known range forthe species, while in about the same latitude Mr. A. B. Peasecollected specimens at Errer Gota and Katinwaha, and LordLovat others at the Kassim river and Gadaburka. The latternaturalists found the species abundant on the Hawash plain,but it was shy, and he remarks : During the d

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