Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Passerides:
Passerida: Estrildoidea
Distribution: Africa and Madagascar, Arabian
Peninsula, southern Asia, Wallacea, Australia
Number of extant genera: ~43
Number of extant species: ~144
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