Zoological Programme

Following training at the National History Department of the British Museum, 0. W. N. Shepard completed collections for them as follows:

• In the sand dunes 20 km north of El Golea in Algeria specimens of skink or sand lizard were trapped and preserved. These proved useful in establishing the location of sub-genus of skink some 100 miles further south than previously thought to exist.
• In the savannah region of Goundam in Mali specimens of fruit bat were trapped and preserved to complete gaps in the Museum’s collection.
• In the rain forest zone of the Bandama Rouge river in the Ivory Coast, specimens of bilharzia-bearing water snails were collected and preserved for research under Dr. C. W. Wright.

 

Note: Lists of bird sightings during the journey included 141 recognized species.

Bird Sightings in Algeria, Mali and Ivory Coast compiled by O.W.N. Shepard (Total 175)

 

African Darter Dwarf Bittern Senacco Heron Great White Egret Yellow Billed Egret Black Heron Little Egret Grey Heron Purple Heron Hammerkop White Stork Sacred Ibis Glossy Ibis Fulvous Tree Duck White Faced Tree Duck Egyptian Goose Knob Billed Goose Ruppell’s Griffon Vulture Hooded Vulture Egyptian Vulture Palm Nut Vulture Pallid Harrier Marsh Harrier Short Toed Eagle West African Goshawk Shikra Chanting Goshawk Gabar Goshawk Lizzard Buzzard Red-Tailed Buzzard West African River Eagle Black Kite Black Shouldered Kite Swallow-Tailed Kite Lanner Falcon Peregrine Falcon Grey Kestrel Kestrel Fox Kestrel Double-Spurred Frankolin Grey Breasted Helmet King Reed Hen Allen’s Reed Hen Finfoot Senegal Bustard Lily-Trotter Oyster Catcher Spur-Winged Plover Black-Headed Plover Ringed Plover Kittlitz’s Sand Plover Black-Tailed Godnit Greenshank Wood Sandpiper Green Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Redshank

Turnstone Common Snipe Knot Little Stint Ruff Black Winged Stilt Painted Snipe Crocodile Bird Cream Coloured Courser Pratincole Gull Billed Tern Caspian Tern White Winged Tern Chestnut Bellied Sand Grouse Red-Eyed Dove Mourning Dove Vinaceout Dove Rose Grey Dove Laughing Dove Long Tailed Dove Tambourine Dove Black Tailed Wood Dove Green Fruit Pigeon Senegal Long Tailed Parakeet Violet Plantain Eater Great Spotted Cuckoo Senegal Coucal Pearl Spotted Owlet West African Wood Owl Long Tailed Nightjar European Swift Little African Swift Palm Swift Blue Naped Mousebird Pied Kingfisher Malachite Kingfisher Senegal Kingfisher Little Green Bee-Eater Carmine Bee-Eater Abyssinian Roller European Roller Hoopoe Senegal Wood Hoopoe Lesser Wood Hoopoe Grey Hornbill Red Beaked Hornbill Black and White Tailed Hornbill White Crested Hornbill Piping Hornbill Speckled Tinker Bird Wryneck Singing Bush Lark Rufous-Naped Lark Chestnut Backed Finch Lark Crested Lark Hoopoe Lark African Sand Martin

Swallow Mosque Swallow Yellow Wagtail Red Wagtail Tawny Pipit Brubru Shrike Great Grey Shrike African Golden Oriole Glossy Backed Drongo Purple Glossy Starling Chestnut Bellied Starling Black Magpie Pied Crow Brown Necked Raven Common Garden Bulbul Slender Billed Bulbul Simple Leaf Dove Swamp Palm Bulbul Whinchat Wheatear Ant Chat White Rumped Black Chat Black Scrub Robin Melodious Warbler Olivaceous Warbler Willow Warbler Green Hylia Spotted Flycatcher Dusky Blue Flycatcher Pied Flycatcher Mouse Brown Sunbird Collared Sunbird Olive Sunbird Rock Bunting Orange Weaver Vitellene Masked Weaver Village Weaver Red Vented Malibe Yellow Crowned Bishop Fire Crowned Bishop Yellow Mantled Wydah Red Bishop Sparrow Weaver Grey Headed Sparrow Golden Sparrow Bush Sparrow Pintailed Wydah Senegal Indigo Finch Broad Tailed Paradise Wydah White-Checked Olive Weaver Cut-Throat Weaver Orange-Checked Waxbill Black-Rumped Waxbill Lavender Fire Finch Red Checked Cordon Bleu Senegal Fire Finch Bar Breasted Fire Finch