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Red-cheeked Wattle-eye
Platysteira blissetti (Sharpe, 1872)
Platysteiridae — Wattle-eyes, Batises
Red-cheeked Wattle-eye, Platysteira blissetti, is a bird of the family Platysteiridae found in West and Central Africa, from Guinea and Sierra Leone to Nigeria and north-east Cameroon. It is also recorded in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Liberia and Togo. Its natural home is moist lowland forest in the tropics and subtropics. The species was described by Sharpe in 1872.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Platysteiridae — Wattle-eyes, Batises
- Breeding range
- Africa: Guinea and Sierra Leone tp c Nigeria and ne Cameroon
