| Yellow-Winged Pytilia | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Estrildidae |
| Genus: | Pytilia |
| Species: | P. hypogrammica |
| Binomial name | |
| Pytilia hypogrammica Sharpe, 1870 |
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The Yellow-winged Pytilia (Pytilia hypogrammica), also known as the Red-faced Pytilia, is an African estrildid finch. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 250,000 km².
It is commonly found at Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone & Togo.
Origin and phylogeny has been obtained by Antonio Arnaiz-Villena et al.[1] Estrildinae may have originated in India and dispersed thereafter (towards Africa and Pacific Ocean habitats).