''Speirops'' are a group of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

s in the white-eye family

Zosteropidae The white-eyes are a family, Zosteropidae, of small passerine birds native to tropical, subtropical and temperate Sub-Saharan Africa, southern and eastern Asia, and Australasia. White-eyes inhabit most tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, the ...

. They are restricted to the islands of the

Gulf of Guinea The Gulf of Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean from Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia. The intersection of the Equator and Prime Meridian (zero degrees latitude and longitude) is in the ...

and a single mountain in

Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...

. It contains the following species: * Fernando Po speirops (''Zosterops brunneus'') *

Príncipe speirops The Príncipe speirops (''Zosterops leucophaeus'') is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is endemic to the island of Príncipe in São Tomé and Príncipe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and p ...

(''Zosterops leucophoeus'') *

Black-capped speirops The black-capped speirops (''Zosterops lugubris'') is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It was previously placed in the genus '' Speirops''. It is endemic to São Tomé in São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe (; pt, ...

(''Zosterops lugubris'') * Mount Cameroon speirops (''Zosterops melanocephalus'')

References

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