INDEX 



Acacia, 90 



acuticauda, Poephila, GG 



aenea, Hypochera, 60 



affinis, Crithagra striolata, 111 



Drymoica, 49 



Poliospiza striolata, 111 



Prinia subflava, 49, 105 

 afra, Euplectes, 15 



Fringilla, 150 



Pytilia, 28, 148, 150, 153 

 African waxbill, 7 

 Agelaius badius, 30 

 albifrons, Amblyospiza, 18, 112 



Pyrrhula, 112 

 albirostris, Bubalornis albirostris, 14 



Coccotliraustes, 14 

 albonotata, Vidua, 15 

 albonotatus, Coliuspasser, 15 

 Amadina, 2G 



erythrocephala, 17, 18 



fasciata, 18, 20, 21, 113, 116, 149 

 amauropteryx, Hypochaera, 60, 61 



Vidua, 10, 57 59, 60, G2, 63, 68-75, 

 76, 78, 80, 87 



Vidua amauropteryx, 62, 68, 69, 73 

 Amblyospiza albifrons, 18, 112 

 Amblyospizinae, 13 

 Anaplectes melanotis, 15, 18, 20 

 Anas atricapilla, 39 

 angolensis, Estrilda, 72, 104, 133 



Fringilla, 72, 133 



Monticola, 23 

 Anomalospiza, 3, 17 



butleri, 40 



imberbis, 3, 12, 13, 17, 34, 39-55 



imberbis butleri, 40, 55 



imberbis imberbis, 52 



imberbis macmillani, 40 

 Anomalospizinae, 13 

 ardens, Coliuspasser, 21, 95, 106, 140 



Coliuspasser ardens, 106 



Fringilla, 95, 106 

 aridula, Cisticola, 43, 47 

 Asiatic weaver, 15 



astrild, Estrilda, 26, 27 (fig.), 79, 104, 

 108, 110, 144 



Estrilda astrild, 108 



Loxia, 79, 108 



atricapilla. Anas, 39 



Heteronetta, 39 

 atricollis, Fringilla, 132 



Ortygospiza, 17, 50, 132 

 aucupum, Steganura, 140 



Steganura paradisaea, 142, 156, 158 

 aureoflavus, Ploceus, 14 

 Australian shafttail, 66 



zebra finch, 152 

 badius, Agelaius, 30 



Molothrus, 30, 34 

 Bay-winged cowbird, 30, 46 

 bengala, Fringilla, 18 

 Bengalese finch, 103 

 bengalus, Estrilda, 18 

 bicolor, Ploceus, 14, 21 

 Bishop bird, 79 



red, 72, 149 



yellow-rumped, 149 

 Black-bellied fire finch, 107 

 Black-cheeked waxbill. 111 

 Black-chested longtail, 50, 51, 130 

 Black-headed duck, 39 

 Black-winged combassou, 33, 67, 81-89 

 Blue widow bird, 10, 11, 56, 89, 90-93 

 bojeri, Ploceus, 21 

 bonariensis, Molothrus, 36 



Tanagra, 36 

 Brachycope, 4 

 brachypterus, Ploceus, 19 

 Breeding season, Anomalospiza imberis, 

 40 



Steganura Paradisaea, 142 



Vidua amauropteryx, 69 



Vidua chalybeata, 81 



Vidua fischeri, 124 



Vidua funerea, 76 



Vidua hypocherina, 90 



Vidua macroura, 94 



Vidua regia, 128 

 Bronze mannikin, 24, 84, 92, 106 

 Brood parasitism, and possible endo- 

 crine factors, 37-38 



superficial solution of, in weaver- 

 birds, 37 

 Brown grass warbler, 47, 51 

 Brown-winged dusky combassou, 10, 59, 

 71, 75-81 



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