| Malimbus 19 (1) March/mars 1997 |
Abstracts prepared for Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL)
Diop, M. S., & B. Tréca. 1997. [Sharing a cavity for breeding by the Grey Hornbill Tockus nasutus and the Red-beaked Hornbill T. erythrorhynchus]. Malimbus 19: 1-6. (Lab. d'ornithol., ORSTOM, BP 1386, Dakar, Sénégal.)—A single case in 1995, apparently the first observed in Africa of two species in simultaneous occupation of the same nesting cavity. (French, Engl. summ.)
Stoate, C. 1997. Abundance of Whitethroats Sylvia communis and potential invertebrate prey, in two Sahelian sylvi-agricultural habitats. Malimbus 19: 7-11. (Game Conserv. Trust, Fordingbridge, SP6 1EF, UK.)—Tudu habitat (dry farmland with indigenous trees and shrubs) compared to recently coppiced Neem (Azadirachta indica) plantations, by 80 point counts of birds and 110 beating tray samples of invertebrates, in January 1996 in northern Nigeria. Whitethroats and two other warblers (S. cantillans and Prinia subflava), present in tudu, were absent in Neem plantations, while invertebrates were scarcer.
Melter, J., & A. Sauvage. 1997. Measurements and moult of Ruffs Philomachus pugnax wintering in West Africa. Malimbus 19: 12-18. (OAG Münster, Biol. Stn., Coermühle 181, 48157 Münster, Germany.)—Statistical data on leg colour by age; wing, bill, and tarsus length of adults; and moult of outer primaries of first-year birds, from 2094 Ruffs caught in Senegal and Cameroon from 1985 to 1991.
del Val, J.P., J. Castroviejo, & F.J. Purroy. 1997. Species rejected from and added to the avifauna of Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea). Malimbus 19: 19-31. (C/ Estébanez Calderón 7, 5
ED, 28020 Madrid, Spain.)—Data on 15 species of which the status was clarified, 11 species added and 11 species rejected, as a result of field work between 1989 and 1994 and a bibliographic review.van Beirs, M. 1997. Black-billed Barbet Lybius guifsobalito, new to Cameroon and W Africa. Malimbus 19: 32. (Hertooiebos 36, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium.)—Two birds on 11 February 1993 at least 1800 km west of their previously known range.
Williams, E. 1997. Unusual records of Palaearctic warblers Sylviidae in Ivory Coast. Malimbus 19: 33-34. (6 Newbold Grove, Croxteth Country Pk. Estate, Liverpool L12 0NS, UK.)—Acrocephalus arundinaceus, Hippolais icterina, H. pallida, Phylloscopus collybita, and Sylvia hortensis 16-17 January 1995.
Salewski, V. 1997. Discovery of a nest of Puvel's Akalat Illadopsis puveli. Malimbus 19: 34-36. (Institut für Vogelforschung, An der Vogelwarte 21, 26386 Wilhelmshaven, Germany.)—Apparently the first description of the nest, illustrated by a photograph.
Borrow, N. 1997. Red-crested Bustard Eupodotis ruficrista and Adamawa Turtle Dove Streptopelia hypopyrrha, new to the Gambia, and sightings of Great Snipe Gallinago media. Malimbus 19: 36-38. (Flat 5, 63-67 St George's Dr., Pimlico, London SW1V 4DD, UK.)
Fossé, A. 1997. [Yellow-billed Egret Egretta intermedia in Cameroon.] Malimbus 19: 38. (LPO-Anjou, 84 rue Blaise-Pascal, 49000 Angers, France.)—(French.)
Wilkinson, R. 1997. Cooperative breeding in captive Emerald Starlings Coccycolius iris: an update. Malimbus 19: 39. (N. England Zool. Soc., Chester Zoo, Upton-by-Chester CH2 1LH, UK.)—New data on sex of helper, which supplements that published in Malimbus 18: 134-141.
Payne, R.B. 1997. The Mali Firefinch Lagonosticta virata in Senegal. Malimbus 19: 39-41. (Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.)—A 1966 specimen from SE Senegal, the first record for the country.
Tye, A. 1997. Corrigenda. Malimbus 19: 42. (CDRS, Casilla 17-01-3891, Quito, Ecuador.)—to papers in Malimbus 18: 10-24 and 74-111.