Fox's weaver
Fox's weaver | |
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Specimen in Nairobi National Museum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Ploceidae |
Genus: | Ploceus |
Species: | P. spekeoides
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Binomial name | |
Ploceus spekeoides C. H. B. Grant & Mackworth-Praed , 1947 |
Fox's weaver (Ploceus spekeoides) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is endemic to Uganda.
Its natural
habitat loss
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A specimen was collected in 1913 from Teso in central Uganda. It was gifted to the British Museum of Natural History in 1923 and identified as a distinct species closely related to Ploceus spekei by C.H.B. Grant and Mackworth-Praed in 1947. The specimen collector was recorded as being T.V. Fox[2] however some have suggested that it referred to Harold Munro Fox. There was however a Thomas Vernon Fox (20 November 1878 - 13 March 1910) in the Ugandan administrative services between 1908-1918 who collected specimens of birds from the region.[3]
References
- . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Grant, C.H.B.; Mackworth-Praed, C.W. (1947). "A new species of weaver from Uganda". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 68: 7-https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40587771.
- ^ Coote, J.M. (September 1956). "The Kivu Mission, 1919–10". The Uganda Journal. 20 (2): 108.