Yellow-bellied waxbill

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| image = Yellow-bellied Waxbill - Mt.Kenya NP - Kenya_S4E7308 (22595164179).jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Coccopygia quartinia |volume=2016 |page=e.T103815089A104209739 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103815089A104209739.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| taxon = Coccopygia quartinia

| authority = (Bonaparte, 1850)

| synonyms = Estrilda quartinia

}}

The yellow-bellied waxbill (Coccopygia quartinia) is a species of estrildid finch native to East Africa. The bird is now named yellow-bellied swee.[http://www.hbw.com/ibc/species/yellow-bellied-swee-coccopygia-quartinia The Internet Bird Collection]

It breeds in east central and south-eastern Africa. Some taxonomists consider it to be conspecific with the swee waxbill.