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Species of bird From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The northern grosbeak-canary or Abyssinian grosbeak canary (Crithagra donaldsoni) is a species of passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. Its binomial name commemorates the explorer Arthur Donaldson Smith.
Northern grosbeak-canary | |
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Illustration (lower) with a white-bellied canary (above) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Fringillidae |
Subfamily: | Carduelinae |
Genus: | Crithagra |
Species: | C. donaldsoni |
Binomial name | |
Crithagra donaldsoni (Sharpe, 1895) | |
Synonyms | |
Serinus donaldsoni |
The northern grosbeak-canary was formerly placed in the genus Serinus but phylogenetic analysis using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences found that the genus was polyphyletic.[2] The genus was therefore split and a number of species including the northern grosbeak-canary were moved to the resurrected genus Crithagra.[3][4]
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