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Continued Table 1
112 Turdoides reinwardii Black cap barbler TURE Birds Timalidae
113 Turdus Pelios West African thrush TUPE Birds Turbidae
111 Teron australis Green pigeon fruit TRAU Birds Colubridae
114 Tyto alba Owl TYAL Birds Strigidae
115 Veranus examthematicus Short tailed Nile monitor VEEX Reptiles Veramidae
116 Veranus niloticus Monitor lizard VENI Reptiles Veramidae
117 Viverra civetta Civet cat VICI Mammal Viverridae
118 Vidua macroura Pin tailed whydah VIMA Birds Ploceidae
119 Xerus erythropus White stripe ground squirel XEER Mammal Sciuridae
120 Xerus sp Plain body ground squirel XESP Mammal Sciuridae
121 Zosterops senegalensis Yellow white eye ZOSE Mammal Zosterpidae
Table 2 Distribution of species according to families
vegetables, seeds, maize, yams, and oil palm nuts and this
explains their abundance because some of these require-
ments are in abundant supply in the study area.
Also, the Ground squirrel, found widely in the study area
live habitually on the ground especially in burrows and
feed on seeds, roots and bulbs (Ewer, 1969). The areas
were they are mostly found in the study area is rich in
these requirements. The Maxwell duiker lives in wooded
and grassland savanna where there are small thickets and
undergrowth where they can seek cover (Happold, 1973).
Their diet consists of leaves and herbs and young plant.
These food and cover requirements abound in the study
area where they browse on the young stems of these trees
and shrubs and hide in the dense undergrowth.
The Hares (Lepus capensis) live in drier habitats where the
vegetation is heavily grazed and grasses are short and
spouting (Happold, 1987). They are found to predominate
in such vegetation on the study site. This habitat
preference causes them to live in areas otherwise
uninhabitable for other browsers and grazers and explains
Family Number of Species Family Number of Species
Accipitridae 5 Laniidae 2
Agamidae 1 Meropidae 3
Alcedinidae 4 Motacillidae 3
Anatidae 1 Mucicapidae 1
Apodidae 3 Musophagidae 3
Ardeidae 2 Phasiamidae 2
Boidae 1 Picidae 1
Brogonidae 2 Ploceidae 4
Bucerotidae 2 Procaviidae 1
Burhinidae 1 Psittacidae 2
Campephagidae 3 Pyconotidae 1
Capitornidae 1 Rattudae 7
Caprimalgidae 1 Sciuridae 6
Cephalophinae 3 Scopidae 1
Cercopithecidae 3 Strigadae 1
Chiroptera 1 Sturnidae 1
Ciconidae 1 Suidae 1
Colubridae 10 Sylvidae 4
Coraciidae 2 Threskiomithidae 1
Corvidae 1 Thryonomidae 1
Cuculidae 2 Timalicae 2
Elapidae 2 Tragelaphidae 1
Estrildae 4 Turbidae 1
Fringilidae 1 Upupidae 2
Hirundinidae 2 Varamidae 1
Hysricidae 1 Viperridae 1
Indicatoridae 2 Viverridae 4
Jacanidae 1 Zosterpidae 1