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Carpodacus pulcherrimus

Female. Photo by zhangyong
in Hebei, China, July 2006

[edit] Identification

15cm.

[edit] Distribution

Asia: found in China, Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Western Himalayas, Bhutan

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

Polytypic. Consists of four subspecies:

• C. p. pulcherrimus:

• Himalayas (Himachal Pradesh to Nepal, Bhutan and south-eastern Tibet)

• C. p. waltoni:

• South-easter Tibet to south-western China (south-western Xinjiang)

• C. p. argyrophrys:

• Western China (Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu and western Sichuan)

• C. p. davidianus:

• Central Mongolia (south to south-western Inner Mongolia)

[edit] Habitat

Temperate shrubland and high-altitude shrubland.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

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