White-breasted Negrofinch (Nigrita fusconotus)

Other Scientific Names
Nigrita fusconota [BirdLife International (2004)], Nigrita fusconota [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Nigrita fusconota [Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993)]

Other Names (World)
White-breasted Nigrita, White-breasted Negrofinch, Negrofinch, White-breasted Blackfinch

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
11 cm

First Described (Guide)
Fraser, 1843

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest. From sea-level - 1,400 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, 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, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (25)...)

White-breasted Nigrita (Nigrita fusconotus) [XC667519]
by Peter Boesman from Kinkiizi (near Buhoma), Kanungu, Western Region, Uganda (call, song)

White-breasted Nigrita (Nigrita fusconotus) [XC365707]
by Brendan Sloan from Zimmerman Plot, Kakamega Forest, Kenya (song)

Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

uropygialis Sharpe, 1869 - Guinea-Bissau, extreme south-western Mali, south-eastern Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin and south-western Nigeria.
fusconotus Fraser, 1843 - South-eastern Nigeria, Bioko I (Fernando Póo), southern Cameroon and extreme south-western Central African Republic east to Uganda and western Kenya, south to Gabon, PRCongo, northern Angola, south-western and south-central DRCongo, Rwanda and Burundi.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for White-breasted Negrofinch (Nigrita fusconotus) - 10 files

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