Kenya
 
Yellow-bellied Waxbill
Tiny bird found in Sub-Saharan
Africa...has a bicolored black-and-
red bill and a conspicuous red rump.
Coccopygia quartinia
(L 3.5-4")
Road from Kakamega
to Lake Bogoria
18Oct2014
Coccopygia in Greek means scarlet
berry rump
; quartinia refers to the
4th species of waxbill described by
Bonaparte (1851).
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