Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania (book)

Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania is a field guide by Princeton University Press.

On the cover

 * Great Blue Turaco (top)
 * Great White Pelican (left)
 * Spotted Thick-knee (centre)
 * Ross's Turaco (right)

Inside front cover

 * Chestnut Wattle-eye

Parts of a bird
Left side:
 * Montane White-eye
 * Golden-breasted Bunting
 * Unknown passerine (Cape Robin-chat ?)
 * Chestnut Wattle-eye ?
 * Ruff ?

Right side:
 * Grey Parrot
 * African Wattled Plover ?
 * Long-crested Eagle
 * Rock Pigeon
 * African Scops Owl ?
 * White-faced Whistling Duck
 * Greater Flamingo
 * Great Black-headed Gull
 * Helmeted Guineafowl
 * Common Moorhen
 * Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill ?

Wings of birds

 * Sanderling
 * Wagtail (Motacilla sp.)
 * Passer sp.

Typos

 * In the glossary, rachis appears to come after subadult instead of race.


 * Flappet Lark's scientific name (Mirafra rufocinnamomea) isn't italicised (page 415).

Taxonomically

 * Osprey is listed in Accipitridae when it should be in Pandionidae (page 293).


 * Buttonquail are listed near Rallidae when they should be closer to Laridae (page 320).


 * Grey Plover and Pacific Golden Plover are listed in Charadriidae when they should be in Pluvialidae (page 338).


 * Terns and skimmers are listed under their own families (Laridae and Rynchopidae, respectively) when they are basal larids (page 352 and 357).


 * Ground hornbills are listed in Bucerotidae when they should be in Bucorvidae.


 * The barbets are listed in Capitonidae when they should be in Lybiidae.


 * The African Barbet is listed in Eurylaimidae when it should be in Calyptomenidae.


 * Black-lored Babbler, Arrow-marked Babbler, Brown Babbler, Scaly Babbler, Hinde's Babbler, Northern Pied Babbler, Rufous Chatterer and Scaly Chatterer are all listed in Timaliidae when they should be in Leiothrichidae.


 * African Hill Babbler is listed under Timaliidae when it should be in Sylviidae.


 * Spot-throat and Dappled Mountain-robin or dapple-throat are listed under Timaliidae when they should be in Promeropidae.


 * Dapple-throat's genus is Modulatrix when it should be Arcanator.


 * Grey-chested Kakamega (known as grey-chested illadopsis in the book) is listed under Timaliidae when it should be in Promeropidae.


 * Brown Illadopsis, Mountain Illadopsis, Pale-breasted Illadopsis and Scaly-breasted Illadopsis are listed under Timaliidae when they should be in Pellorneidae.


 * White-starred Robin, Swynnerton's Robin, Forest Robin, Usambara Akalat, Sharpe's Akalat, Equatorial Akalat, East Coast Akalat, Grey-winged Robin-Chat, Olive-flanked Robin-Chat, Red-capped Robin-Chat, Rueppell's Robin-Chat, White-browed Robin-Chat, Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat, Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat, Brown-chested Alethe, White-chested Alethe, Spotted Palm-Thrush, Nightingale, Thrush Nightingale, White-browed Scrub-Robin, Brown-backed Scrub-Robin, Bearded Scrub-Robin, Rufous Scrub-Robin, White-throated Robin, Common Redstart, Common Stonechat, Whinchat, Northern Wheatear, Pied Wheatear, Black-eared Wheatear, Desert Wheatear, Isabelline Wheatear, Abyssinian Black Wheatear, Capped Wheatear, Familiar Chat, Brown-tailed Rock Chat, Moorland Chat, Northern Anteater Chat, Sooty Chat, Mocking Cliff Chat, Common Rock Thrush, Little Rock Thrush are listed under Turdidae when they should be in Muscicapidae; basically 45 species except those in Neocossyphus, Zoothera and Turdus (pages 439-50).


 * Forest Robin was split into two species.


 * Cape Robin-Chat's genus is Cossypha when it should be Dessonornis.


 * Familiar Chat and Brown-tailed Rock Chat's genus is Cercomela when it should be Oenanthe; Cercomela was dissolved.


 * Moorland Chat's genus is Cercomela when it should be Pinarochroa.


 * Spotted Ground Thrush, Orange Ground Thrush and Abyssinian Ground Thrush's genus is Zoothera when it should be Geokichla.


 * Marsh Tchagra's genus is Tchagra when it should be Bocagia.


 * Eastern Nicator is listed in Malaconotidae when it should be in Nicatoridae.


 * Black-bellied Starling's scientific name is Lamprotornis corruscus when it should be Notopholia corrusca (page 511).


 * Ashy Starling's genus is Cosmopsaurus when it should be Lamprotornis.


 * Abbott's Starling's genus is Cinnyricinclus when it should be Poeoptera.


 * Sharpe's Starling's genus is Cinnyricinclus when it should be Pholia.


 * White-crowned Starling and Fischer's Starling's genus is Spreo when it should be Lamprotornis.


 * Red-billed Oxpecker and Yellow-billed Oxpecker are listed in Sturnidae when they should be in Buphagidae.


 * Amani Sunbird, Collared Sunbird and Pygmy Sunbird's genus is Anthreptes when it should be Hedydipna (page 518).


 * Olive Sunbird, Green-headed Sunbird and Mouse-coloured Sunbird's genus is Nectarinia when it should be Cyanomitra.


 * Amethyst Sunbird, Scarlet-chested Sunbird and Hunter's Sunbird's genus is Nectarinia when it should be Chalcomitra.


 * Variable Sunbird's scientific name is Nectarinia venusta when it should be Cinnyris venustus.


 * Olive-backed Sunbird's scientific name is Nectarinia chloropygia when it should be Cinnyris chloropygius.


 * Northern Double-collared Sunbird, Eastern Double-collared Sunbird, Marico Sunbird, Purple-banded Sunbird, Violet-breasted Sunbird, Pemba Sunbird, Orange-tufted Sunbird, Superb Sunbird, Copper Sunbird Red-chested Sunbird, Black-bellied Sunbird, Beautiful Sunbird and Shining Sunbird's genus is Nectarinia when it should be Cinnyris.


 * Golden-winged Sunbird's genus is Nectarinia when it should be Drepanorhynchus.


 * The whydahs and indigobirds are considered a part of Estrildidae instead of Viduidae (page 557).

Other things that might not be errors

 * The Northern Lapwing only receives a black-and-white drawing instead of a coloured drawing (page 54).


 * Some of the petrels don't have a drawing on a coloured plate, they only get a black-and-white drawing (page 272).


 * The Pied Flycatcher only receives a black-and-white drawing (it already is black-and-white), but this could be because only one specimen has been found (page 456).


 * Fork-tailed Drongo is called Common Drongo (page 505).


 * Mountain Oriole is called Montane Oriole (page 506).


 * Western Oriole is called Western Black-headed Oriole (page 507).


 * Cape Crow is called Cape Rook (page 509).


 * Splendid Starling is called Splendid Glossy Starling (page 512).


 * Rueppell's Starling is called Rueppell's Long-tailed Starling (page 513).


 * Grey-chinned Sunbird is called Green Sunbird (page 518).


 * Grey Sunbird is called Mouse-coloured Sunbird (page 519).


 * Bronzy Sunbird is called Bronze Sunbird (page 524).


 * Scarlet-tufted Sunbird is called Scarlet-tufted Malachite Sunbird (page 525).