Grey-capped greenfinch
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Fringillidae |
| Subfamily: | Carduelinae |
| Genus: | Chloris |
| Species: | C. sinica
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| Chloris sinica (Linnaeus, 1766)
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MHNT
The grey-capped greenfinch or Oriental greenfinch (Chloris sinica) is a small
Palearctic
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The grey-capped greenfinch is a medium-sized finch 12.5 to 14 cm (4.9 to 5.5 in) in length, with a strong bill and a short slightly forked tail. It nests in trees or bushes, laying 3-5 eggs.[2]
In 1760 the French zoologist
type locality was subsequently restricted to Macau in eastern China.[6] The specific name sinica is Medieval Latin for Chinese.[7]
The greenfinches were later placed in the
Mediaeval Latin for "Chinese".[11]
Five subspecies are now recognised:[9]
- C. s. ussuriensis Hartert, 1903 – Eastern Manchuria to South Ussuriland and Korea
- C. s. kawarahiba (Temminck, 1836) – Kamchatka Peninsula, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin and Hokkaido, Korea(Ulleung Island), winters to Japan
- C. s. minor (Temminck & Schlegel, 1848) – South Japan (Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu) and Korea (Cheju-Do Island)
- C. s. sinica (Linnaeus, 1766) – Western China (Gansu) to South Manchuria
- C. s. chabarowi (Stegmann, BK 1929) – Inner Mongolia to North Manchuria[12]
The Bonin greenfinch from the Bonin Islands including Iwo Jima, formerly C. s. kittlitzi, is nowadays usually considered a distinct species.
References
- . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- S2CID 216227661. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
- ^ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés (in French and Latin). Vol. 3. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. pp. 175–177, Plate 7 fig 2. The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen.
- ^ hdl:2246/678.
- ^ Linnaeus, Carl (1766). Systema naturae : per regna tria natura, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 1 (12th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 321.
- ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1968). Check-list of birds of the world. Vol. 14. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 236.
- ^ Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- PMID 22023825.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Finches, euphonias". World Bird List Version 5.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- ^ Cuvier, Georges (1800). Leçons d'anatomie comparée. Vol. 1. Paris: Baudouin. Table 2. The year on the title page is An VIII.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=AD387364&sec=summary&ssver=1
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