| Sterrhoptilus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Timaliidae (but see text) |
| Genus: | Sterrhoptilus Oberholser, 1918 |
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Sterrhoptilus capitalis |
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Sterrhoptilus is a songbird genus recently separated from Stachyris and usually placed in the family Timaliidae. Together with other "Old World babblers" of the yuhina group, it is a close relative of the white-eyes however, and like these might arguably be placed in a distinct family Zosteropidae.
It contains the following species: