A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF PERDICINE BIRD (PHASIANIDAE, PERDICINI) FROM TANZANIA - A RELICT FORM WITH INDO-MALAYAN AFFINITIES

Authors
DINESEN L LEHMBERG T SVENDSEN JO HANSEN LA FJELDSA J
Citation
L. Dinesen et al., A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF PERDICINE BIRD (PHASIANIDAE, PERDICINI) FROM TANZANIA - A RELICT FORM WITH INDO-MALAYAN AFFINITIES, Ibis, 136(1), 1994, pp. 3-11
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Ornithology
Journal title
Ibis → ACNP
ISSN journal
00191019
Volume
136
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
3 - 11
Database
ISI
SICI code
0019-1019(1994)136:1<3:ANGASO>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
A very distinctive perdicine bird was discovered in July 1991 during f ieldwork in montane evergreen forests in parts of the Udzungwa Mountai ns in Tanzania which were so far ornithologically unexplored. The bird is described here as a new genus and species with affinities to the h ill-partridges Arborophila of the Indo-Malayan region. The relict occu rrence in Africa of taxa with affinities to Oriental biota is discusse d.