The white-winged black tit (Melaniparus leucomelas ) is a passerinebird in the tit family Paridae. It is also known as the white-winged tit, dark-eyed black tit or northern black tit. The species was first described by Eduard Rüppell in 1840.
It is mainly black with a white wing patch, but differs from the more northern white-shouldered tit (Melaniparus guineensis ) with which it sometimes considered conspecific in that it has a dark eye.
