| STRUTHIONIFORMES |
| Struthionidae |
| Struthio
Formerly across n Africa and Arabia (S. c. syriacus, extinct ) and over more of S. Africa. Absent from most of central Africa in the belt of brachystegia woodland and from forested w,c, and se Africa from s Tanzania and Malawi to n Mozambique. Several races have been described (massaicus, olybdophanes, australis, spatzi, syriacus) based on size, bald or feathered crown, color of neck and egg-pore characteristics. - S. c. camelus African Ostrich Locally in sub-Saharan Africa from Spanish Sahara, Mauritania and interior Senegambia e to n C. African Rep., Sudan and w,ne Ethiopia. Contacts molybdophanes in e Ethiopia and massaicus in extreme n Kenya and extreme n Uganda. - Morocco, réserve du Souss-Massa (rediscovered) - - 
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