Yellow-browed Seedeater
Crithagra whytii
A chunky medium-sized seedeater, brown above and pale below with heavy streaking. Patches of yellow appear on several parts of the body, including the eyebrows, breast, and edges of the wing and tail feathers. Found locally along forest edges and in moist scrub and bracken. Can be similar to female or immature Yellow-crowned Canary but larger, heavier-billed, and more streaked below, with a different distribution of yellow. Also somewhat similar to Reichard’s Seedeater, but easily distinguished by the yellow markings. The song is a fast-paced and variable mix of twitters and whistles. The most common call is a rising whiny whistle.
识别特征
The yellow-browed seedeater (Crithagra whytii) is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It is found in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia. The yellow-browed seedeater was formerly placed in the genus Serinus but phylogenetic analysis using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences found that the genus was polyphyletic. The genus was therefore split and a number of species including the yellow-browed seedeater were moved to the resurrected genus Crithagra. Since 2012 the IUCN has treated this taxon as a subspecies of Crithagra striolata.
分类信息
Genus: Crithagra; Family: Fringillidae; Order: Passeriformes.
- 学名
- Crithagra whytii
- 命名信息
- (Shelley, 1897)
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Fringillidae
- 属
- Crithagra
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