Scarlet finch

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Scarlet finch
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Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Subfamily: Carduelinae
Genus: Carpodacus
Species: C. sipahi
Binomial name
Carpodacus sipahi
(Hodgson, 1836)
Synonyms
Haematospiza sipahi,
Erythrina sipahi

The scarlet finch (Carpodacus sipahi) is a small passerine bird in the finch family
Fringillidae. It is found in the Himalayas from central Nepal eastwards to Vietnam
and is found spottily in 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] Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

It was described by the British naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1836 under the
binomial name Corythus sipahi.[3] The species name sipahi comes from the Hindi word
sipahi for a soldier.[4]

The scarlet finch was formerly placed in the monotypic genus Haematospiza but was
moved to the rosefinch genus Carpodacus based on the results of molecular
phylogenetic studies.[5][6]

Gallery[edit]

Male at Khangchendzonga National Park, Sikkim, India

Male at Khangchendzonga National Park, Sikkim, India

References[edit]
Jump up ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Haematospiza sipahi". IUCN Red List of
Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Retrieved 16 July 2012.
Jump up ^ Clement, Peter; Harris, Alan; Davis, John (1993). Finches and Sparrows.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 100. ISBN 0-691-03424-9.
Jump up ^ Hodgson, Brian Houghton (1836). "Notices of the ornithology of Nepal: New
species of the thick billed finches". Asiatic Researches. 19: 151.
Jump up ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names.
London: Christopher Helm. p. 357. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
Jump up ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Finches, euphonias". World Bird List
Version 5.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
Jump up ^ Zuccon, Dario; Prys-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.