Bertram's Weaver

Bertram's Weaver
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Ploceidae
Genus:	Ploceus
Species:	P. bertrandi
Binomial name
Ploceus bertrandi (Shelley, 1893)

Bertram's Weaver (Ploceus bertrandi), sometimes called Bertrand's Weaver, is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family. It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia. It is named after Bertram Lutley Sclater, a captain in the British army who served in Africa in the late 19th century. Bertram Sclater (22 February 1866 - 24 July 1897), the second son of the well-known ornithologist Philip Lutley Sclater (1829–1913), was Mr. Johnston's principal officer and commander of the police force in Nyassaland (now Malawi) in 1892 when this bird was discovered there by Alexander White.

References

• Beolens, Bo & Watkins, Michael (2003) Whose Bird?: Men and women commemorated in the common names of birds, Christopher Helm, London.

• The Ibis, 8th Series, Volume V (1), No. XVII, pp. 1–29 (24) Shelley, George Ernest. I. List of Birds collected by Mr. Alexander Whyte, F.Z.S., in Nyassaland. [F.Z.S. stands for Fellow of the Zoological Society].