Serinus burtoni The thick-billed seedeater (Crithagra burtoni) is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae.

It is native to the Western High Plateau and Bioko, the Albertine rift montane forests and the East African montane forests The thick-billed 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 thick-billed seedeater were moved to the resurrected genus Crithagra.

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