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The boubou or grand boubou is a flowing wide-sleeved robe worn across West Africa, and to a lesser extent in North Africa, related to the dashiki suit. [ 1 ] The garments and its variations are known by various names in different ethnic groups and languages.
Laniarius is a genus of brightly coloured, carnivorous passerine birds commonly known as boubous or gonoleks.Not to be confused with the similar-sounding genus Lanius, they were formerly classed with the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, but they and related genera are now considered sufficiently distinctive to be separated from that group as the bush-shrike family Malaconotidae.
Fülleborn's boubou (Laniarius fuelleborni) is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae. It is found in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia, where its typical habitat is humid montane forest, dense undergrowth, secondary growth, forest edges and bamboo groves. [2] The name of this bird commemorates the German physician Friedrich Fülleborn. [3]
Within the genus Laniarius its position is unclear, but it does not appear to be closely related to the black-plumaged members of the genus such as Fuelleborn's boubou, Laniarius fuelleborni, with which some authorities had previously considered it conspecific. [2] The adult slate-colored boubou is 20 cm (8 in) long and wholly dark slate grey.
The black boubou (Laniarius nigerrimus), also known as Somali boubou, Erlanger's boubou or coastal boubou, [2] is a medium-size bushshrike.It was split from the tropical boubou as a result of DNA sequence analysis, [3] and this change in status was recognized by the International Ornithological Committee in 2008. [4]
In the Wolof language, this robe is called a mbubb or xaftaan and in French it is called a boubou. The Senegalese caftan is an ankle length garment. It is worn with matching drawstring pants called tubay in Wolof. Normally made of cotton brocade, lace, or synthetic fabrics, these robes are common throughout West Africa.
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The yellow-breasted boubou (Laniarius atroflavus) is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae. Ecology and distribution