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869.  Yellow-fronted Canary
(Yelloweyed canary )   (Crithagra mozambicus)
Siswati: mbalane  
Very common breeding resident in all regions.

Malolotja Mantenga Mlawula

Malolotja Information:
Common resident of woodlands.
Mixed woodlands, thicket and thornveld

Malolotja information from the Bird Checklist for Malolotja (printed in the late 1980's, sponsored by the Natural History Society of Eswatini), supplemented with information from Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa, 1985.

Checklist, comments and distribution information from the Eswatini Bird Atlas by Vincent Parker, digital data provided by the Avian Demography Unit, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town (http://www.aviandemographyunit.org). SiSwati names from SNTC and Big Game Parks.

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