The Birds of Mount Nimba, Liberia

advanced stages AF-W ANNUAL CYCLE April male August birds August female August male Bill black birds breeding activity breeding condition Cameroon Curry-Lindahl enlarged testes Estrildidae evidence of breeding Forbes-Watson forest-grassland mosaics fresh plumage Gabon Ghana Grassfield grassland HABITAT HABITAT AND HABITS HABITAT AND STATUS IMPERMANENT COLOURS including beetles Insects Iris brown Ivory Coast July female June female juvenile KC-L Legs black Leone to Ghana lowland and montane males had enlarged males had testes March montane forests moult Mount Nimba Nectariniidae Nigeria Nimba birds November male observed at Nimba October female October males outer primaries growing Palaearctic Ploceidae primary and secondary Pycnonotidae rain forest record for Liberia savanna secondary forest Senegal Sept September female September males Sierra Leone stages of wing-moult STOMACH CONTENTS trees vegetation West Africa worn condition worn plumage Yekepa yellow Zaire