Mousebirds
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of four mousebird specimens, which date from 1901 to 1917.
These four specimens are from the largest and commonest species, the speckled mousebird (Colius striatus). They are all skins, three from Ethiopia collected in 1901 and one collected in Kenya in 1917.
About mousebirds
The mousebirds are a small group of birds that are not closely related to other groups of birds and so form an order in their own right – the Colliformes. There are six species, and they are only found south of the Sahara in Africa. They feed among the branches of trees, scurrying through the leaves looking for fruit and berries with a manner much like that of a rodent – hence the name mousebirds. - Broader term
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