Brown-winged mouse bird

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Brown-winged mouse bird
Brown-winged mouse bird (Colius striatus)

Brown-winged mouse bird ( Colius striatus )

Systematics
Order : Mouse birds (Coliiformes)
Family : Mouse birds (Coliidae)
Genre : Colius
Type : Brown-winged mouse bird
Scientific name
Colius striatus
Gmelin , 1789

The speckled mousebird ( Colius striatus ), sometimes striped mouse bird is an African bird art from the family of the mouse birds .

description

The brown-winged mouse bird is 30 to 35 cm tall and thus belongs to the medium-sized mouse birds. The top is brown, the face is gray with a dark mask. It has a short hood and a long, broad and pointed tail. The underside is paler and banded on the chest. The legs are purple. The plumage of the young birds is duller, their hood is unmarked and they have a shorter tail.

distribution and habitat

The brown-winged mouse bird is found in the Afrotropic ecozone (including the Red Sea), and is widespread between 10 ° N and 10 ° S. It is often found in open scrub and woodland, in gardens and on the edges of forests.

Systematics

So far 17 subspecies have been described:

  • Colius striatus nigricollis Vieillot , 1817 - This subspecies occurs in Ghana and Nigeria across the southwest of the Central African Republic and south to western Angola and the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo .
  • Colius striatus leucophthalmus Chapin , 1921 - This subspecies is distributed in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the south-east Central African Republic, and south-west Sudan .
  • Colius striatus leucotis Rüppell , 1839 - This subspecies occurs in eastern Sudan , Eritrea, and western and central areas of Ethiopia .
  • Colius striatus hilgerti Zedlitz , 1910 - This subspecies is common in southwestern Djibouti , northeastern Ethiopia, and northwestern Somalia .
  • Colius striatus jebelensis Mearns , 1915 - This subspecies is found in southern Sudan, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northern Uganda .
  • Colius striatus mombassicus van Someren , 1919 - The distribution area of ​​this subspecies is the south of Somalia to the northeast of Tanzania .
  • Colius striatus kikuyensis van Someren , 1919 - The distribution area of ​​this subspecies is central Kenya and northern Tanzania
  • Colius striatus cinerascens Neumann , 1900 - This subspecies occurs in western and central Tanzania.
  • Colius striatus affinis Shelley , 1885 - This subspecies occurs in eastern Tanzania through northeast Zimbabwe and northern Mozambique .
  • Colius striatus berlepschi Hartert , 1899 - This subspecies is distributed in southwestern Tanzania across northeastern Zambia and Malawi .
  • Colius striatus kiwuensis Reichenow , 1908 - This subspecies is distributed in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, central and southern Uganda , Rwanda , Burundi, and northwest Tanzania.
  • Colius striatus congicus Reichenow , 1923 - The distribution area of ​​this subspecies is the east of Angola to the south and south-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the west of Zambia.
  • Colius striatus simulans Clancey , 1979 - The distribution area of ​​this subspecies is central Mozambique and southeast Malawi.
  • Colius striatus integralis Clancey , 1957 - This subspecies is found in northeastern South Africa , southeastern Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique.
  • Colius striatus rhodesiae Grant, CHB & Mackworth-Praed , 1938 - This subspecies occurs in eastern Zimbabwe and western Mozambique.
  • Colius striatus minor Cabanis , 1876 - This subspecies is common in eastern South Africa and Swaziland .
  • Colius striatus striatus Gmelin, JF , 1789 - The nominate form occurs in southern South Africa.

literature

  • A. Gosler: The birds of the world: a cosmos encyclopedia with 1400 color photos (translation from the English by Barthel P. et al.) Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-440-06302-X
  • Johann Friedrich Gmelin: Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, Cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis . tape 1 , no. 2 . Georg Emanuel Beer, Leipzig 1789 ( online [accessed August 31, 2015]).
  • Louis Pierre Vieillot: Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs . tape 7 . Deterville, Paris 1817 ( online [accessed August 31, 2015]).
  • James Paul Chapin: Description of four new birds from the Belgian Congo . In: American Museum novitates . No. 7 , 1921, pp. 1–9 ( online (PDF; 5.107 MB) [accessed August 31, 2015]).
  • Eduard Rüppell: Monograph of the genus Colius, together with a description of a new species Colius leucotis Rüpp living in Abyssinia. In: Museum Senckenbergianum: Treatises from the field of descriptive natural history . tape 3 , 1839, pp. 39–44 ( online [accessed August 31, 2015]).
  • Otto Eduard Graf von Zedlitz and Trützschler: Some new forms from Northeast Africa . In: Ornithological monthly reports . tape 18 , 1910, pp. 39–44 ( online [accessed August 31, 2015]).
  • Edgar Alexander Mearns: Descriptions of new African Birds of the Genera Francolinus, Chalcopelia, Cinnyris, Chalcomitra, Anthreptes, Estrilda, Halcyon, Melittophagus, and Colius . In: Proceedings of the United States National Museum . tape 48 , 1915, pp. 381–394 ( online [accessed April 3, 2015]).
  • Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren: Dr. VG van Sommeren Exhibited and Described the Following new forms from Africa, Which FORMED part of a magnificant collection he had recently Brought home: . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 40 , no. 245 , 1919, pp. 19–28 ( online [accessed August 31, 2015]).
  • Phillip Alexander Clancey: The South African races of the Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus Gmelin . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 77 , no. 2 , 1957, p. 26–29 ( online [accessed August 31, 2015]).
  • Phillip Alexander Clancey: Miscellaneous taxonomic notes on African birds. LIII. An additional subspecies of Colius striatus Gmelin from southern Malawi . In: Durban museum novitates . tape 12 , no. 1 , 1979, p. 8-11 .
  • Claude Henry Baxter Grant, Cyril Winthrop Mackworth-Praed: Capt. CHB Grant and Mr. CW Mackworth-Praed sent the following descriptions of two new races . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 58 , no. 410 , 1938, pp. 65-66 ( online [accessed August 31, 2015]).
  • Oscar Rudolph Neumann: Contributions to the bird fauna of East and Central Africa. The birds I collected and observed on my expedition through the Maasai countries and in the countries at Victoria Nyansa 1892-1895 . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 48 , no. 2 , 1900, p. 185–228 ( online [accessed August 31, 2015]).
  • Jean Louis Cabanis : Protocol of the LXXVIII. Monthly meeting . In: Journal for Ornithology (=  4 ). tape 24 , 1876, pp. 91-98 ( online [accessed August 31, 2015]).
  • George Ernest Shelley: Review of the Species of the Family Coliidae . In: The Ibis (=  5 ). tape 3 , 1885, p. 307-314 ( online [accessed August 31, 2015]).
  • Anton Reichenow: New bird species . In: Ornithological monthly reports . tape 16 , no. 12 , 1908, pp. 191 ( online [accessed August 31, 2015]).
  • Anton Reichenow: About a bird collection from the upper Congo and a new species of strangler from the island of Mossibé . In: Messages from the Zoological State Institute and Zoological Museum in Hamburg . tape 40 , 1923, pp. 61–65 ( online [accessed August 31, 2015]).
  • Ernst Hartert in William John Ansorge: Appendix. Birds. On the Birds collected by Dr. Ansorge during his recent stay in Africa in Under the African sun; a description of native races in Uganda, sporting adventures and other experiences . Longmans, Green, New York 1899, pp. 325–355 ( online [accessed August 31, 2015]).

Web links

Commons : Colius striatus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IOC World Bird List Mousebirds, trogons & Cuckoo Roller
  2. ↑ Louis Pierre Vieillot, p. 378.
  3. ↑ James Paul Chapin, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Eduard Rüppell, p. 42, plate 2, figure 2.
  5. ^ Otto Eduard Graf von Zedlitz and Trützschler, p. 58.
  6. ↑ Edgar Alexander Mearns, p. 394.
  7. ↑ Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, p. 26.
  8. ↑ Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, p. 27.
  9. ↑ Oscar Rudolph Neumann, p. 190.
  10. ↑ George Ernest Shelley, p. 312.
  11. ↑ Ernst Hartert, p. 333.
  12. ^ Anton Reichenow (1908), p. 191.
  13. ^ Anton Reichenow (1923), p. 63.
  14. ↑ Phillip Alexander Clancey (1979), p. 8.
  15. ↑ Phillip Alexander Clancey (1957), p. 28.
  16. ↑ Claude Henry Baxter Grant et al. a., p. 65.
  17. ^ Jean Louis Cabanis, p. 94.
  18. ^ Johann Friedrich Gmelin, p. 843.