Spizixos

Spizixos is a genus of passerine birds in the bulbul family Pycnonotidae.

The genus Spizixos was introduced in 1845 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth to accommodate the crested finchbill.

[1] The word Spizixos combines the Ancient Greek spiza meaning "finch" with the genus name Ixos that was introduced by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1825.

[2] The genus contains two species:[3]

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