''Spizixos'' is a genus of

passerine A passerine () is any bird of the order Passeriformes (; from Latin 'sparrow' and '-shaped'), which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds, passerines are distinguished from other orders of birds by th ...

birds in the bulbul family Pycnonotidae.

Taxonomy

The genus ''Spizixos'' was introduced in 1845 by the English zoologist

Edward Blyth Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the museum of the Asiatic Society of India in Calcutta. Blyth was born in London in 1810. In 1841 ...

to accommodate the crested finchbill. The word ''Spizixos '' combines the

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

''spiza '' meaning "finch" with the genus name '' Ixos'' that was introduced by

Coenraad Jacob Temminck Coenraad Jacob Temminck (; 31 March 1778 – 30 January 1858) was a Dutch aristocrat, zoologist and museum director. Biography Coenraad Jacob Temminck was born on 31 March 1778 in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic. From his father, Jacob Temm ...

in 1825. The genus contains two species: * Crested finchbill (''Spizixos canifrons'') * Collared finchbill (''Spizixos semitorques'')

References

Bird genera Taxa named by Edward Blyth Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Pycnonotidae-stub