Fulvetta

For other species known by the common name "fulvetta", see Alcippe (bird) and Lioparus.

Typical fulvettas
White-browed fulvetta (Fulvetta vinipectus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradoxornithidae
Genus: Fulvetta
David & Oustalet, 1877
Type species
Siva cinereiceps
Jules, J, 1871
Species

8, and see text

Fulvetta is a genus of passerine birds. Originally proposed in 1877, it was recently reestablished for the typical fulvettas, which were long included with their presumed relatives in the Timaliidae (Old World babbler) genus Alcippe. But they are actually quite closely related to the parrotbills, and are thus now placed in the family Paradoxornithidae.

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