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Heleia

Genus of birds

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Taxonomy

The genus Heleia was introduced in 1865 by the German ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub to accommodate the Timor heleia. The name is from Ancient Greek eleia, an unidentified small bird mentioned by the Greek scholar Callimachus.

The genus contains the following ten species:

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