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Female
Photo by zhangyong
in Hebei, China, July 2006

Identification

15cm.

Mongolia and northern China.

This is a monotypic species.
Formerly considered conspecific with Himalayan Beautiful Rosefinch and polytypic but the subspecies argyrophrys is moved to Himalayan Beautiful Rosefinch and waltoni to Pink-rumped Rosefinch.

Temperate shrubland and high-altitude shrubland.

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2014. IOC World Bird Names (version 4.3). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
Avibase
Wikipedia

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Chinese Beautiful Rosefinch. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 19 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Chinese_Beautiful_Rosefinch

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 cm.
 ==Distribution==
-From southeast [[Tibet]] to [[China]] and [[Mongolia]].
+[[Mongolia]] and northern [[China]].
 ==Taxonomy==
-Formerly considered conspecific with [[Himalayan Beautiful Rosefinch]].
+This is a [[Dictionary_M-O#M|monotypic]] species.<br />
-====Subspecies<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>====
+Formerly considered conspecific with [[Himalayan Beautiful Rosefinch]] and polytypic but the subspecies ''argyrophrys'' is moved to [[Himalayan Beautiful Rosefinch]] and ''waltoni'' to [[Pink-rumped Rosefinch]].
-Polytypic. Consists of three subspecies:
-*''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)
-Some authorities treat this species as monotypic. They place ''waltoni'' in [[Pink-rumped Rosefinch]] and ''argyrophrys'' in [[Himalayan Beautiful Rosefinch]].
 ==Habitat==
 Temperate shrubland and high-altitude shrubland.
 ==Behaviour==
 ==References==
-#{{Ref-Clements6thAug11}}#Avibase
+#{{Ref-Clements6thAug14}}#{{Ref-GillDonsker14V4.3}}#Avibase
 #Wikipedia
 {{ref}}