Uraeginthus
{{short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic_taxobox
| image = Red-cheeked cordon-bleu.jpg
| image_caption = Red-cheeked cordon-bleu (Uraeginthus bengalus)
| taxon = Uraeginthus
| authority = Cabanis, 1851
| type_species = Fringilla bengalus{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=191 |title= Estrildidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}
| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1766
}}
Uraeginthus is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae that are found in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The genus was introduced by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1851.{{ cite book | last1=Cabanis | first1=Jean | author1-link=Jean Cabanis | last2=Heine | first2=Ferdinand | author2-link=Ferdinand Heine | year=1851 | title=Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt | volume=1 | language=de, la | place=Halberstadt | publisher=R. Frantz | page=171 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49584550 }} The type species was subsequently designated as the red-cheeked cordon-bleu.{{ cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1968 | title=Check-list of birds of the world | volume=14 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | pages=331–332 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14481532 }} The name Uraeginthus combines the Ancient Greek words oura "tail" and aiginthos for an unknown bird, perhaps a finch.{{cite web | last=Jobling | first=J.A. | year=2018 | title= Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/uraeginthus | access-date=4 May 2018 }}
Species
{{Species table |genus= Uraeginthus |authority-name=Cabanis |authority-year=1851 |species-count=three|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
{{Species table/row
|name= Blue waxbill|binomial=Uraeginthus angolensis
|image=File:Uraeginthus angolensis (male).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male
|image2 =File:Uraeginthus angolensis (female).jpg|image2-caption=Female
|authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year= 1758|authority-not-original=yes
|range= Cabinda and the Congo to Kenya and Tanzania in the east south to northern South Africa
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|iucn-status= LC
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Three subspecies |bullets=on
| U. a. angolensis (Linnaeus, 1758)
| U. a. cyanopleurus Wolters, 1963
| U. a. niassensis Reichenow, 1911
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{{Species table/row
|name=Red-cheeked cordon-bleu |binomial=Uraeginthus bengalus
|image=File:Red-cheeked cordon-bleu (Uraeginthus bengalus bengalus) male.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male
|image2 =File:Red-cheeked cordon-bleu (Uraeginthus bengalus bengalus) female.jpg|image2-caption=Female
|authority-name=Linnaeus|authority-year= 1766 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, south Democratic Republic of the Congo and north Zambia
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Four subspecies |bullets=on
| U. b. bengalus (Linnaeus, 1766)
| U. b. brunneigularis Mearns, 1911
| U. b. ugogensis Reichenow, 1911
| U. b. katangae Vincent, 1934
}}
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{{Species table/row
|name= Blue-capped cordon-bleu|binomial=Uraeginthus cyanocephalus
|image=File:Estrildidae Uraeginthus cyanocephalus 2.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Richmond |authority-year= 1897|authority-not-original=yes
|range= Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Tanzania in East Africa
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References
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Category:Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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