White-fronted tit
The white-fronted tit is a species of bird in the family Paridae.
It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
It is threatened by habitat loss.
The white-fronted tit was formally described by the Italian ornithologist Tommaso Salvadori in 1865 under the binomial name Melaniparus semilarvatus. The species was formerly included in the genus Parus but was moved to Sittiparus when Parus was split into several resurrected genera following the publication of a detailed molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2013. The genus Sittiparus had originally been erected by the Belgium politician and naturalist Edmond de Sélys Longchamps in 1884 with the varied tit as the type species.
There are three subspecies:
