Grey-headed Nigrita (Nigrita canicapillus)

Other Scientific Names
Nigrita canicapilla [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Nigrita canicapilla [Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993)]

Other Names (World)
Grey-headed Nigrita, Gray-headed Nigrita, Grey-headed Negrofinch, Gray-headed Negrofinch, Grey-crowned Negrofinch, Gray-crowned Negrofinch, Grey-crowned Blackfinch, Gray-crowned Blackfinch, Western Negrofinch (emilae), Kungwe Negrofinch (candidus)

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Strickland, 1841)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest. From sea-level - 3,350 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Vagrant to Mali.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (39)...)

Grey-headed Nigrita (Nigrita canicapillus) [XC301481]
by Joost van Bruggen from feeder road to Sushen Forest, Ghana (song)

Grey-headed Nigrita (Nigrita canicapillus) [XC745664]
by Deville Tanguy from Adwuofua, Bia West, Western Region, Ghana (song)

Subspecies
Subspecies emiliae and candidus may represent two separate species. Nominate subspecies intergrades with schistaceus in north-eastern DRCongo.

Proposed subspecies sparsimguttatus, described from extreme north-western Tanzania (Bukoba, on western L Victoria), treated as synonym of schistaceus.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

emiliae Sharpe, 1869 - Sierra Leone east to Togo.
canicapillus (Strickland, 1841) - Southern Benin, southern Nigeria and western and southern Cameroon south, including Bioko I (Fernando Póo), to Gabon and PRCongo, east to northern and central DRCongo.
schistaceus Sharpe, 1891 - Southern Sudan, eastern DRCongo, Uganda, Burundi, western Kenya and northern Tanzania.
angolensis Bannerman, 1921 - North-western Angola and southern DRCongo.
diabolicus (Reichenow & Neumann, 1895) - Montane central and south-eastern Kenya south to northern Tanzania (Crater Highlands, Mt Kilimanjaro).
candidus Moreau, 1942 - Mt Kungwe, in western Tanzania.

References
See References.

Files:

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