. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . iriver. (SheUev.) The following field-notes are from Shelleys Birds ofAfrica, Vol. IV., Part I., p. 51 :— In the Niger dis-trict Mr. Hartert found them in June and July atLoko, in full plumage, in large flocks wuthother Finches in the rice and cornfields. Along the Shire Valley Sir John Kirk saw largenumbers of them on the wide grass plains, flying fromone grass-head to another, always selecting the this, the natives catch them by netting anoose on any grass-head rising above the others. Thebreedin< plumage, he remarks. was a
. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . iriver. (SheUev.) The following field-notes are from Shelleys Birds ofAfrica, Vol. IV., Part I., p. 51 :— In the Niger dis-trict Mr. Hartert found them in June and July atLoko, in full plumage, in large flocks wuthother Finches in the rice and cornfields. Along the Shire Valley Sir John Kirk saw largenumbers of them on the wide grass plains, flying fromone grass-head to another, always selecting the this, the natives catch them by netting anoose on any grass-head rising above the others. Thebreedin< plumage, he remarks. was assumed inDecember, and lasted throughout the wet season. Thenest was made of giass, woven among the stalks. According to Captain Shelley, The eggs are palegreen, or greenish grey, spotted with grey, andmeasure in. by in. The Yellow-backed Whydah inhabits damp localitiesand buUds its nest, which much that of theOryx Weaver, in tall grass; it lays from two to threeegge. The species is said to be abundant at ;-CatlaTiol Wv,(» In spite of its rather long tail, this bird appears to me to linkthe Whydahs and Weavers, inasmuch as, like the Weavers, themale appears not only not to be polygamous, according toReichenow, but to build the nest and defend it. In colouring,moreover, it is not unlike the Yellow-shouldered Weaver. It has been much more often imported than either of the twopreceding species ; neveitheless, it is not a cheap bird. Red-shouldered Whtdah {Urobrachya axillaris). Glossy black; lesser wing-coverts bright orange-vermilion;median coverts edged with the same colour, but the inner onesand inner secondaries with whity-brown; primary-coverts cinna-mon-brown at base ; under wing-coverts and axillaries also of thiscolour; beak bluish horn colour ; whitish on edges and tips of the 19^ FOREIGN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AVIARY. mandibles; feet black; irides dark brown. Female brown,pale on upper surface of body and marked with broadblacki.
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