Description of a new taxon brookei of Levaillant's Cisticola Cisticola tinniens from the Western Cape, South Africa

Ostrich

Volumn 70, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 164-172

  Herremans, M ^a   Philogene, D ^a   Underhill, G D ^a   Raijmakers, J M H ^a   Underhill, L G ^a   Johnson, D ^a   Bernitz, H ^a   Bernitz, Z ^a   Bowker, M B ^a   De Beer, S J ^a  

^a ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

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EID: 0038930778     PISSN: 00306525     EISSN: 1727947X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00306525.1999.9634230     Document Type: Article

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