Shelley's sparrow

Shelley's sparrow (Passer shelleyi), also known as Shelley's rufous sparrow or the White Nile rufous sparrow, is a sparrow found in eastern Africa from South Sudan, southern Ethiopia, and north-western Somalia to northern Uganda and north-western Kenya.^[1][2] Formerly, it was considered as a subspecies of the Kenya sparrow.^[3] This species is named after English geologist and ornithologist George Ernest Shelley.^[4]

Shelley's sparrow
A male in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Passeridae
Genus:	Passer
Species:	P. shelleyi
Binomial name
Passer shelleyi Sharpe, 1891
Synonyms
List Passer cordofanicus shelleyi Passer iagoensis shelleyi Passer motitensis shelleyi Passer rufocinctus shelleyi

A detail of an illustration by Henrik Grönvold, showing a male Shelley's sparrow