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Jameson's Wattle-eye
Platysteira jamesoni (Sharpe, 1890)
Platysteiridae — Wattle-eyes, Batises
Jameson's Wattle-eye, Platysteira jamesoni, is a bird of the family Platysteiridae found in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and southern South Sudan through Burundi to western Kenya. It is also recorded from Tanzania and Uganda. Its breeding range lies in Africa across that same broad belt. The bird is named for James Sligo Jameson. It was described by Sharpe in 1890.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Platysteiridae — Wattle-eyes, Batises
- Breeding range
- Africa: ne DR Congo and s South Sudan to Burundi and w Kenya
