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

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, southern Ethiopia, and north-western Somalia to northern Uganda and north-western Kenya. Formerly, it was considered as a subspecies of the

Kenya sparrow The Kenya sparrow (''Passer rufocinctus''), also known as the Kenya rufous sparrow, is a sparrow found in Kenya and Tanzania. It tends to be found in dry wooded savannah and agricultural areas. Some authorities have lumped the great sparrow ('' ...

. This species is named after English

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and ornithologist George Ernest Shelley.

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White Nile rufous sparrow
at the Internet Bird Collection Passer Birds of East Africa Birds described in 1891 {{passeridae-stub