Senegal River relates the legend that both the Senegal and the Egyptian Nile were branches of the Biblical Gihon River that stems from the Garden of Eden and flows through Ethiopia. He also notes that the Senegal was called "the Niger" by the ancients - probably a reference to Ptolemy's legendary 'Nigir' (Νιγειρ) (below the Gir), which would be later identified by Leo Africanus with the modern Niger River. Much the same story is repeated by Marmol in 1573, with the additional note that both the Senegal River and Gambia River were tributaries of the Niger River. However, the contemporary African atlas
Senegal eremomela Senegal eremomela The Senegal eremomela ("Eremomela pusilla") is a member of the African warbler family, the Cisticolidae. It occurs in the savannas of western Sub-Saharan Africa. The Senegal eremomela was described by the German ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub in 1857 and given its current binomial name "Eremomela pusilla". The type locality is Senegal. The species has been treated as conspecific with the green-backed eremomela, as they hybridizes in a narrow zone of sympatry along the Cameroon-Central African Republic border. The Senegal eremomela is a small bird with a pale brownish grey head and a pale white supercilium. The back and mantle