The birds of Africa, comprising all the species which occur in the Ethiopian region (1896) (14725828006)

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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.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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compressed, the sides being nearly straight, culmen wide and flattened,extending back in an acute angle through the frontal feathers; cuttingedges of mandibles smooth; nostrils exposed and not placed in a groove.Primaries 3, 4 and 5 longest; 1 half length of 3. Tail very slightlyrounded. Tarsi and feet fairly strong. Sexes alike in plumage. No hair-like plumes on back of head or hind neck. Type. Dinemellia, Eeichenb. Singv. p. 88 (1863) D. dinemelli. Limoneres, Eeichen. J. f. O. 1885, p. 372 D. dinemelli. The genus is confined to Eastern Africa, where it is represented by twoclosely allied species, remarkable in having the head, neck and breast white;bend of wing, upper and under tail-coverts carmine ; also in having a whitespeculum on the primaries, as in Amblyospiza. The genus, although mostnearly allied to Textor, forms a link between the latter and Arnhhjospiza. KEY TO THE SPECIES. a. With white edges to the brown feathers dinemelli. b. No white edges to the brown feathers boehmi.
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erf -Q cd T3 rf P jJ cd p-, u :d ^ o p nJ ^ tJ w Oh o a.o■oo P h-^) P 3 -P 6 < 3:; DINEMELLIA DINEMELLI 311 Dinemellia dinemelli. Texto dinemelli, Eiipp. Syst. Uebers, pp. 72, 76, pi. 30 (1845) Shoa ; Gray and Mitch. Gen. B. ii. p. 350, pi. 87, fig. 2(1819) ; Bartl. Mon. Weaver-birds, Pt. i. pi. i. fig. 1 (1888).Dinemellia diuemelli, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 506 (1890); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 459 (1896); Elliot, Field Col. Mus. Orn. i. p. 36 (1897); Grant, Ibis, 1904, p. 259 Abyssinia; Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 7 (1904).Tester leucocephalus, Eiipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 72 (1845).Dinemellia ruspoli, Salvad. Mem. Ace. Torino, 1894, p. 558 Somali; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 460 (1896). Adults. Head, neck and breast white ; remainder of the upper partsbrown, with the lower back, upper tail-coverts and a few of the least wing-coverts orange-shaded vermilion; broad white bases to the primaries;scapulars, greater wing-coverts and secondaries with broadish buff outeredges ; tail uniform br