General colouring black with hind neck golden and belly white. It is widely distributed and not uncommon in small flocks, feeding on the ground. In the breeding season the male makes a display flight from one high tree top to another in which the tail is expanded vertically but carried straight out behind.
Details
- Subject: Paradise Whydah
- Designer: Victor Whiteley
- Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd, London
- Process: Photogravure
- Paper:
- Watermark: Cockerels
- Perf: 14.5 (comb)
- Cylinders: 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A
- Sheet: R5 x 12 (60 stamps)
- Quantity:
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