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- Estrilda quartinia
Identification
Length 9-10 cm. A small waxbill with an olive back, red rump, grey head and breast and yellow belly. The upper mandible is black and the lower mandible red (diagnostic).
Distribution
Sub Saharan Africa.
Taxonomy
Estrilda quartinia has four subspecies:2
- E. q. bocagei
- Western Angola
- Regarded as a subspecies of Swee Waxbill by some3; may be a separate species4.
- E. q. quartinia
- E. q. kilimensis
- E. q. stuartirwini
- Southern Malawi and eastern Zimbabwe to northern Mozambique
Yellow-bellied Waxbill is lumped with Swee Waxbill E. melanotis by some authorities.1 Clements places this species in the genus Coccopygia.
Habitat
Rank vegetation; forest edge and plantations.
Behaviour
References
- BirdLife International. 2008. The BirdLife checklist of the birds of the world, with conservation status and taxonomic sources. Version 1. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/downloads/BirdLife_Checklist_Version_1.zip [.xls zipped 1 MB].
- Clements JF. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
- Gill F & Wright M. 2008. Birds of the World: Recommended English Names. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, USA. 2006. ISBN 9780691128276 Update (2008) downloaded from http://worldbirdnames.org/names.html.
- Hockey PAR, Dean WRJ & Ryan PG (eds) 2005. Robert's Birds of Southern Africa, 7th edition. John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, Cape Town, South Africa. ISBN 0620340533