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 LC    West African Seedeater* Id (Atlas):
    Crithagra canicapilla

Description (5)
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Family
Fringillidae (Finches)

Size
12.50 - 16 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Du Bus de Gisignies, 1855)

Habitat
Dry savanna. From sea-level - 2,100 m.

Range (Guide)
Cameroon, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone.

Guinea, Sierra Leone, southern Mali and northern Ivory Coast east to southern Niger and northern Cameroon.
 
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

 
West African Seedeater (Crithagra canicapilla) [XC759699]
     by id from Mole Airstrip, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
Streaky-headed Seedeater (Crithagra gularis) and West African Seedeater (Crithagra canicapilla) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Serinus gularis following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Streaky-headed Seedeater (Crithagra gularis).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • canicapilla (Du Bus de Gisignies, 1855)   -  Wc, central. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Streaky-headed Seedeater (Crithagra gularis).
  • elgonensis (Ogilvie-Grant, 1912)   -  Southern Chad, north-western Central African Republic, northern DRCongo, southern Sudan, northern Uganda and extreme western Kenya. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Streaky-headed Seedeater (Crithagra gularis).
  • montanorum (Bannerman, 1923)   -  Eastern Nigeria to central Cameroon. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Streaky-headed Seedeater (Crithagra gularis).



References
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