Vincent's bunting (''Emberiza vincenti'') is a

passerine A passerine () is any bird of the order Passeriformes (; from Latin 'sparrow' and '-shaped'), which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds, passerines are distinguished from other orders of birds by th ...

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 lightweig ...

in the bunting family Emberizidae. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the

Cape bunting The Cape bunting (''Emberiza capensis'') is a passerine bird in the bunting (bird), bunting family Emberizidae. Taxonomy In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the Cape bunting in his ''Ornithologie'' bas ...

, and some taxonomists still consider it to be conspecific.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q7931628 Vincent's bunting Birds of East Africa Vincent's bunting Vincent's bunting