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{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Cut-throat Finch (Amadina fasciata, male - Djenné, Mali, 2008).jpg
| image_caption = [[Cut-throat finch]] (''Amadina fasciata'')
| taxon = Amadina
| authority = [[William John Swainson|Swainson]], 1827
| type_species = ''Loxia fasciata''<br />([[Cut-throat finch]])
| type_species_authority = [[Johann Friedrich Gmelin|Gmelin, JF]], 1789
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
[[Cut-throat finch]]<br/>
[[Red-headed finch]]
}}
'''''Amadina''''' is a [[genus]] of [[estrildid finch]]es that are found in Africa.
==Taxonomy==
The genus ''Amadina'' was introduced in 1827 by the English naturalist [[William John Swainson]] with the [[cut-throat finch]] as the [[type species]].<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Swainson | first=William John | author-link=William John Swainson | year=1827 | title=On several groups and forms in ornithology, not hitherto defined | journal=Zoological Journal | volume=3 | pages=343–363 [349] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27485875 }}</ref> The name ''Amadina'' is a corrupted diminutive of the genus name ''[[Ammodramus]]'', the genus of several American sparrows. Swainson thought the cut-throat finch formed a link between that genus and the genus ''[[Estrilda]]'', and created the name to reflect that linkage.<ref name = "Jobling"/>
===Species===
The genus contains two species:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=January 2021 | title=Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/waxbills/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=10 July 2021 }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Image !! Common Name !! Scientific name !! Distribution
|-
|[[File:Cut-Throat Finch 2010 10 06 11331.jpg|120px]] || [[Cut-throat finch]]|| ''Amadina fasciata''|| Sub-Saharan Africa
|-
|[[File:Amadina erythrocephala (l) edit.jpg|120px]] || [[Red-headed finch]]|| ''Amadina erythrocephala''||  Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
|-
|}
==References==
{{Reflist | refs =
<ref name = "Jobling">{{cite book | title = The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Names | url = https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | first = James A. | last = Jobling | year = 2010 | location = London, UK | publisher = Christopher Helm | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page = [https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n43 43]}}</ref>
}}
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[[Category:Bird genera]]
[[Category:Estrildidae]]
[[Category:Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa]]
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