EditorialVidua regia, Print, The shaft-tailed whydah or queen whydah (Vidua regia) is a small, sparrow-like bird in the genus Vidua. During the breeding season the male has black crown and upper body plumage, golden breast and four elongated black tail shaft fe...
EditorialVidua regia, Print, The shaft-tailed whydah or queen whydah (Vidua regia) is a small, sparrow-like bird in the genus Vidua. During the breeding season the male has black crown and upper body plumage, golden breast and four elongated black tail shaft fe...
EditorialLong-tailed paradise whydah, Vidua paradisaea, in breeding plumage and after moulting (non-breeding male). Handcoloured lithograph by Burggraaff from Th. Lejeune's Complete Works of Buffon, Oeuvres Completes de Buffon, Brussels, 1837.
EditorialLong-tailed paradise whydah, Vidua paradisaea, in breeding plumage and after moulting (non-breeding male). Handcoloured lithograph by Burggraaff from Th. Lejeune's Complete Works of Buffon, Oeuvres Completes de Buffon, Brussels, 1837.
EditorialPin-tailed whydah, Vidua macroura (Supercilious widow bird, Fringilla superciliosa Vieillot). Handcoloured engraving from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1829.
EditorialLong-tailed paradise whydah, Vidua paradisaea. Chromolithograph by Brumby and Clarke after a painting by Frederick William Frohawk from Arthur Gardiner Butler's "Foreign Finches in Captivity," London, 1899.
EditorialRed-collared widowbird, Euplectes ardens. (Red-collared whydah, Penthetria ardens) Chromolithograph by Brumby and Clarke after a painting by Frederick William Frohawk from Arthur Gardiner Butler's "Foreign Finches in Captivity," London, 1899.
EditorialPin-tailed whydah, Vidua macroura. (Vidua principalis) Chromolithograph by Brumby and Clarke after a painting by Frederick William Frohawk from Arthur Gardiner Butler's "Foreign Finches in Captivity," London, 1899.
EditorialYellow-mantled widowbird, Euplectes macroura. (Yellow-backed whydah, Penthetriopsis macrura). Chromolithograph by Brumby and Clarke after a painting by Frederick William Frohawk from Arthur Gardiner Butler's "Foreign Finches in Captivity," London, 1899.
EditorialLong-tailed whydah, Chera procne. Chromolithograph by Brumby and Clarke after a painting by Frederick William Frohawk from Arthur Gardiner Butler's "Foreign Finches in Captivity," London, 1899.