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Tufted Olive Sunbird* |
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Nectarinia obscura |
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Description (9)
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Tufted Olive Sunbird
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Other Names (World)
Tufted Olive Sunbird, Western Olive-sunbird, Olive Sunbird, Guinea Olive Sunbird, Guinean Olive Sunbird
Family
Nectariniidae (Sunbirds)
Size
12 - 15 cm
First Described (Guide)
Jardine, 1843
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest and shrubland, most lowland forest.
Angola, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Sao Tome e Principe, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2012).
Subspecies
Genus formerly subsumed in Nectarinia. Probably forms a superspecies with Olive Sunbird (Cyanomitra olivacea). Formerly regarded as conspecific, but separated initially on basis that females lack pectoral tufts. Although some females do have pectoral tufts (albeit white, wispy insignificant ones), and conspecificity supported by analyses of mitochondrial DNA, treatment as separate species nevertheless considered justified, as the two differ in vocalizations and in egg patterning, and yellow pectoral tufts extremely rare (if they occur at all) in female of present species. Recent re-examination of specimens reveals that possibility of sympatry of the two species on Zanzibar is unfounded. Subspecies guineensis and cephaelis intergrade in Ghana-Togo region.
Proposed subspecies vincenti (described from Kapenguria, in western Kenya) and lowei (from R Kafulafuta, in western Zambia) considered insufficiently distinct from ragazzii. Subspecies name pembae is a junior synonym of granti.
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
- guineensis Bannerman, 1921 - Senegal east to Ghana and Togo.
- cephaelis (Bates, 1930) - Ghana and Togo east to Central African Republic, south to northern Angola. Also Príncipe (in Gulf of Guinea); purportedly this subspecies in Burundi.
- obscura (Jardine, 1843) - Bioko I (Fernando Póo).
- ragazzii (Salvadori, 1888) - Eastern and south-eastern DRCongo, extreme southern Sudan east to central Ethiopia, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania, Zambia and extreme northern Malawi.
- granti Vincent, 1934 - Pemba I, off north-eastern Tanzania.
- sclateri Vincent, 1934 - Eastern Zimbabwe (Melsetter area) and bordering areas of Mozambique.
References
See References.
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