habessinica

Updated: May 14, 2025

Fortunately I had a good deal of employment with my gun; for, besides gazelles, antelopes, a lynx, florikans, and partridges, I shot many very beautiful little honey-birds, as well as other small birds. Of these former the most beautiful was the Nectarinia Habessinica.

John Hanning Speke - What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile