Nesocharis
Genus of birds
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Nesocharis is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are found in Africa.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Estrildidae |
| Genus: | Nesocharis Alexander, 1903 |
| Type species | |
| Nesocharis shelleyi Shelley's oliveback Alexander, 1903 | |
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Taxonomy
The genus Nesocharis was introduced in 1903 by the English anthropologist Boyd Alexander with Shelley's oliveback as the type species.[1] The name Nesocharis is a combination of the Ancient Greek nēsos, meaning "island" and kharis, meaning "loveliness".[2] The genus Nesocharis is sister to the waxbills in the genus Coccopygia.[3]
Species
The genus contains two species:[4]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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| White-collared oliveback | Nesocharis ansorgei | Burundi, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania & Uganda | |
| Shelley's oliveback | Nesocharis shelleyi | Bioko island, western Cameroon and adjacent Nigeria | |
