Yellow-crowned Bishop - Taxonomy

Taxonomy

The Yellow-crowned Bishop was first described by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789. It and the Fire-fronted Bishop have occasionally been placed in the separate genus Taha but DNA places it in Euplectes, but with no close relatives. In captivity it has interbred with the Northern Red Bishop. Alternate common names include: Golden Bishop, Napoleon Bishop, Napoleon Weaver, Black-winged Golden Bishop, Goudgeelvink (in Afrikaans), Napoleonweber (in Dutch), Euplecte vorabé (in French), Napoleonweber (in German), and Obispo Coronigualdo (in Spanish).