Races of the African finfoot (Aves, Heliornithidae)

Title Variants

Alternative: African finfoot

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 1659

By

Chapin, James P. (James Paul), 1889-1964

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, American Museum of Natural History, [1954]

Notes

Title from caption.

"May 25, 1954."

"With the increased number of specimens now available from many parts of its range, it is clear that the dimensions of Podica senegalensis increase gradually from Upper Guinea to the eastward and southward. The disparity in size between the sexes is very marked and must always be considered when the five geographic races are compared. The darkest of all, P. s. camerunensis, is restricted to the Cameroon, Gaboon, and central Congo basin. It is small, approximately equal in size to P. s. senegalensis. In Kenya Colony, east of the Rift Valley, there is a race of somewhat larger size, very dark on head and neck, though males do not become black on the under parts. This form is here named P. s. somereni. In the region of the Loango Coast, southern Congo, and (northern?) Angola the increase in size is sufficient to justify a fourth race, with breast and abdomen always whitish, P. s. albipectus. Finally the maximum size is reached in South Africa and Mozambique, the habitat of P. s. petersii. The latter two are like senegalensis in color"--P. 10.

Subjects

59.83,1H(6) , Africa , Birds , Classification , Gruiformes , Podica senegalensis

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.1659, 1954

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 31830547