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[[Image:Beautiful_Rosefinch_by_Tony.Saw.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Male. Photo by {{user|Tony.Saw|Tony.Saw}}<br /> near Lhasa, [[Nepal]].]]
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'''Beautiful Rosefinch''' may refer to one of three species previously considered conspecific under the name '''Beautiful Rosefinch''' (''Carpodacus pulcherrimus ''):
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==Identification==
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*'''[[Himalayan Beautiful Rosefinch]]''' - ''Carpodacus pulcherrimus ''
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15cm.
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*'''[[Chinese Beautiful Rosefinch]]''' - ''Carpodacus davidianus ''
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==Distribution==
 
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[[Asia]]: found in [[China]], [[Tibet]], [[Nepal]], [[Pakistan]], [[India]], Western [[Himalayas]], [[Bhutan]]
 
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==Taxonomy==
 
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[[Image:Beautiful_Rosefinch.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Female. Photo by {{user|zhangyong|zhangyong}}<br /> in Hebei, [[China]], July 2006]]
 
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====Subspecies<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>====
 
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Polytypic. Consists of four subspecies:
 
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*''C. p. pulcherrimus'':
 
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:*[[Himalayas]] (Himachal Pradesh to [[Nepal]], [[Bhutan]] and south-eastern [[Tibet]])
 
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*''C. p. waltoni'':
 
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:*South-easter [[Tibet]] to south-western [[China]] (south-western Xinjiang)
 
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*''C. p. argyrophrys'':
 
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:*Western [[China]] (Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu and western Sichuan)
 
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*''C. p. davidianus'':
 
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:*Central [[Mongolia]] (south to south-western Inner Mongolia)
 
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Sometimes split into two species, '''Himalayan Beautiful Rosefinch''' (''pulcherrimus'') and '''Chinese Beautiful Rosefinch''' (''waltoni'', ''argyrophrys'' and ''davidianus'').
 
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==Habitat==
 
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Temperate shrubland and high-altitude shrubland.
 
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==Behaviour==
 
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==References==
 
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#{{Ref-Clements6thDec08}}#Avibase
 
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#Wikipedia
 
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{{ref}}
 
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==External Links==
 
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{{GSearch|Carpodacus+pulcherrimus}}
 
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[[Category:Birds]][[Category:Carpodacus]]
 

Latest revision as of 19:31, 9 September 2011

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Beautiful Rosefinch may refer to one of three species previously considered conspecific under the name Beautiful Rosefinch (Carpodacus pulcherrimus ):

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