Serinus melanochrous The Kipengere seedeater (Crithagra melanochroa), also known as the Tanzania seedeater, is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forest and subtropical or tropical high-elevation shrubland.

The Kipengere seedeater was formerly placed in the genus Serinus but phylogenetic analysis using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences found that the genus was polyphyletic.

[2] The genus was therefore split and a number of species including the Kipengere seedeater were moved to the resurrected genus Crithagra.

[3][4] The Kipengere seedeater is found in montane forest and shrubland in the Udzungwa Mountains, Kipengere Range, and Mount Rungwe.