Thursday 11 June 2015

The streaky seed eater.

The streaky seedeater (Crithagra striolatus) is a species of finch in the fringidae family. It is found in Burundi,DRC ,Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya,Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania,Uganda, and Zambia.
 The streaky seedeater was formerly placed in the genus Serinus but phylogenetic analysis using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences found that the genus was polyphyletic. The genus was therefore split and a number of species including the streaky seedeater were moved to the resurrected genus Crithagra.

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