The Northern Red Bishop ( Euplectes orix) is a resident breeding bird species in most of Africa south of the Sahara Desert.
This common weaver occurs in a range of open country, especially tall grassland and often near water. It builds a spherical woven nest in tall grass. 2-4 eggs are laid.
The Northern Red Bishop is a stocky 13-15cm bird. The breeding male is scarlet apart from his black head and waistcoat, and brown wings and tail. The conical bill is thick and black. He displays prominently, singing high-pitched squeaks from tall grass, puffing out his feathers or performing a slow hovering display flight.
The non-breeding male is pale yellow-brown, streaked above and shading to whitish below. It has a buff supercilium. Females are similar, but smaller. Young birds have wider pale fringes on their flight feathers.
The Northern Red Bishop is a gregarious species which feeds on seed, grain and some insects, all the time making a thin tsip call.
Reference
Birds of The Gambia by Barlow, Wacher and Disley, ISBN 1-873403-32-1
Early in 1835, while the revolution between Texas and Mexico was at its height, Joseph Bishop decided to move to Texas and cast his fate with the Texans, then being led by Sam Houston in a war against Mexico which began in 1835 and ended with the Battle of San Jacinto, April 21st, 1836.
This time Joseph Bishop moved north to the adjacent county of Bell, it was in 1849 that he camped for the first time on Nolan Creek, about where the town of Belton, the county seat, was later established.
Josiah Hart, a brother-in-law of Joseph Bishop, Sam’s uncle was elected one of the five commissioners.
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