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Biwako
The Mozambican Biwako (''Phragmacia humufilius'') is a small insectivorous passerine bird, endemic to the Southern Miombo Woodlands in southern Mozambique. Around 10.1–10.9 cm (4.0–4.3 in) in length (including tail), the male and female are similar in colouration, with a light tan body and face, vibrant crimson upperparts with purple speckles, ivory-coloured claws, and a white belly. It is found in areas of heavier rainfall in the Miombo forests; being completely non-migratory.
The Mozambiquan Biwako is somewhat far removed from its closest relative, the Namaqua warbler, but Sharpe could not ascertain a more appropriate genus due to what he referred to as "an exceptionally strange discourse and habitation for a bird of such form.".
==Taxonomy and systematics==
The Mozambican Biwako was an accidental find by cryptozoologist Neil Sharpe in 2006. He remarked in a paper (which is now lost due to corruption of the hard drive containing the file) that the bird was "unlike anything he had seen before" and that it was a taxonomical nightmare to classify the bird. He settled on Phragmacia, due to its superficial similarity to the Namaqua warbler, and gave it the specific epithet ''humufilius'', derived from the Latin ''humus'' meaning "ground" and the Latin ''filius'' meaning "child" . The genus ''Phragmacia'' was created by Brooke and Dean in 1990, giving the bird its current binomial name of ''P. humufilius''.
The striking bright crimson upperparts adorned with purple speckles, displayed in both sexes, contributed to the biwako's name, as Sharpe noted that he named the bird "Biwako" after a time he had visited Biwako Quasi-National Park in the Shiga prefecture of Japan, where he saw the twilight illuminated the back of a meijiro flying overhead, colouring it a shade of red similar to the biwako's upperparts.
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