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Alternative name: Yellow-rumped Serin

Serinus xanthopygius

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Eastern Africa: found in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.

Some authorities treat the Abyssinian Yellow-rumped Seedeater as a subspecies of the Yellow-throated Seedeater.¹

[edit] Habitat

Semi-arid scrub, woodlands and fields.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to October 2008 (Corrigenda 8). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
2. Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154

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