Species of bird
The scarlet finch (Carpodacus sipahi passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae .
It is found in the Himalayas from Uttarakhand state in the Indian Himalayas eastwards across Nepal , stretching further east to the adjacent hills of Northeast India and Southeast Asia as far south as Thailand . It is resident in the Himalayas , but many birds winter to the immediate south.[ 2] habitat is temperate forests.
It was described by the British naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1836 under the binomial name Corythus sipahi .[ 3] sipahi comes from the Hindustani word sipāhi for a soldier or the Anglicised form sepoy , for the red uniform worn by those in the employment of the East India Company.[ 4]
The scarlet finch was formerly placed in the monotypic genus Haematospiza but was moved to the rosefinch genus Carpodacus phylogenetic studies.[ 5] [ 6]
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References
^ BirdLife International (2016). "Carpodacus sipahi " . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016 : e.T22720635A94676340. doi :10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22720635A94676340.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021 . ^ Clement, Peter; Harris, Alan; Davis, John (1993). Finches and Sparrows . Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 100. ISBN 0-691-03424-9 ^ Hodgson, Brian Houghton (1836). "Notices of the ornithology of Nepal: New species of the thick billed finches" . Asiatic Researches . 19 : 151. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names 357 . ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Finches, euphonias" . World Bird List Version 5.2 . International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 June 2015 . ^ Zuccon, Dario; Prŷs-Jones, Robert; Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Ericson, Per G.P. (2012). "The phylogenetic relationships and generic limits of finches (Fringillidae)" (PDF) . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 62 (2): 581– 596. doi :10.1016/j.ympev.2011.10.002 . PMID 22023825 .
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