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Spizixos

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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]

^ Blyth, Edward (1845). "Notices and descriptions of various new or little known species of birds (continued)". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 14, Part 2 (164): 546–602 [571].
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 363. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Bulbuls". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 June 2021.

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