Species profile
Estrilda cinderella
Estrilda cinderella
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 451794, adult male, collected at Deep Sloot, Benguela, Angola, on 25 November 1905, by W. J. Ansorge (no. 609). From the Rothschild Collection.
- Scientific name
- Estrilda cinderella
- Family
- Estrildidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Estrilda
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