The yellow-fronted tinkerbird (Pogoniulus chrysoconus) is a small bird in the family Lybiidae formerly known as yellow-fronted tinker barbet. It is sometimes considered conspecific with its southern counterpart, the red-fronted tinkerbird, Pogoniulus pusillus. Barbets are near passerine birds with bristles around the base of the bill and a world-wide tropical distribution.

Subspecies

The subspecies vary with respect to size and colour tone of the plumage streaks. They include:

  • P. c. chrysoconus <small>(Temminck, 1832)</small>
  • P. c. extoni <small>Layard, 1871</small> — southern Africa
  • P. c. xanthostictus <small>(Blundell & Lovat, 1899)</small>

If P. c. extoni is restricted to the southernmost population occurring in southeastern Botswana, northern South Africa and Eswatini, the following two subspecies are also recognized:

References

  • Birds of The Gambia by Barlow, Wacher and Disley,
  • Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds