Fire-fronted Bishop male figure from Fischer (1879)
Fire-fronted Bishop male figure from Delacour (1933)
Fire-fronted Bishop distribution, type locality circled
Introduction
The Fire-fronted Bishop was formally described by Anton Reichenow, a German ornithologist and herpetologist. He was curator of the Humboldt Museum in Berlin and described many birds, as well as some frogs and lizards.
The Fire-fronted Bishop was collected by Gustav A Fischer, a German African explorer. In 1876 he accompanied Clemens Denhardt's expedition to Zanzibar, where he settled as a physician. Fischer collected some birds in Zanzibar and then undertook a trip along the Kenyan coast where he collected a male Fire-fronted Bishop.
The first illustration of the Fire-fronted Bishop was published in Fischer (1879). The second illustration was published much later, by Delacour (1933), also of a male. The first female was illustrated in Mackworth (1955).
diadematus, Latin: diadematus, diademed, adorned with a diadem.
First English name
Fire-fronted Bishop-bird (Shelley 1905).
Alternate names
None.
Collector
Gustav A Fischer.
Date collected
4 Sep 1877.
Locality collected
Malindi, Kenya.
Type specimens
A type specimen is in the Berlin Museum (ZMB_23367) and there are some other syntypes.
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