Mount Cameroon Speirops | |
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Illustration (upper bird) by J G Keulemans | |
Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Zosteropidae (disputed) |
Genus: | Speirops |
Species: | S. melanocephalus |
Binomial name | |
Speirops melanocephalus (Gray, 1862) |
The Mount Cameroon Speirops or Cameroon Speirops (Speirops melanocephalus) is a species of bird in the disputed family Zosteropidae, which might be included in the Timaliidae. It is endemic to Cameroon.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.