Species profile
Dicrurus elgonensis
Dicrurus elgonensis
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 671767, adult male, collected at Lerundo, 00.09 N, 34.51 E (Chapin, 1954 a), Kenya, on 21 March 1917, by H. J. Allen Turner (no. 1814) for Col. Meinertzhagen. From the Rothschild Collection.
- Scientific name
- Dicrurus elgonensis
- Family
- Dicruridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Dicrurus
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