Euplectes franciscanus (Isert, 1789)

Boano, Giovanni, Belemsobgo, Urbain, Silvano, Fabrizio, Hema, Emmanuel M., Belemsobgo, Aristide, Dimobe, Kangbéni & Pavia, Marco, 2022, An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso, Zoosystema 44 (2), pp. 27-107 : 95

Euplectes franciscanus (Isert, 1789)

LITERATURE. — Green & Sayer (1979); Holyoak & Seddon (1989); Thonnérieux et al. (1989); Aimassi & Levi (1993); Dowsett (1993); Balanca & de Visscher (1997); Mauvais (1998); Borrow & Demey (2001, 2014); Portier (2002c); Söderström et al. (2003); Balanca et al. (2007); Sinclair & Ryan (2010); Pavia et al. (2012); Dowsett et al. (2013).

MUSEUM MATERIAL. — ISFC 123, 124; MCCI 3163, 3809.

FIELD DATA. — eBird; GBIF; WABD; XC.

STATUS. — Resident; Breeding.

REMARK. — The record of E. oryx (Linnaeus, 1758) by Mauvais (1998) should be referred to E. franciscanus, sometimes considered a subspecies of E. oryx (del Hoyo & Collar 2016).