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Carpodacus mexicanus mcgregori Anthony, 1897

McGregor’s housefinch, San Benito housefinch

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Haemorhous mexicanus mcgregori Anthony, 1897

 

Conservation Status

Missing

Last record: 1938

 

Distribution

Isla San Benito, Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Anthony, A. W. (1897). New Birds From the Islands and Peninsula of Lower California. The Auk 14(2): 164-168.

 

Other references:

Boswall, S. (1978). The birds of the San Benito Islands, Lower California, México. Bristol Ornithology 11: 23-32.

Collar, N.J., Newton, I., Clement, P. and Arkhipov, V. (2010). Family Fringillidae (Finches). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 15: Weavers to New World Warblers (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and D.A. Christie eds). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Hill, Geoffrey E. (1993). Geographic variation in the carotenoid plumage pigmentation of male house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 49: 63-86, 6 fig.

Knox, Alan G. and Walters, Michael P. (1994). Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications 1: 1-292. [p. 259]

http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/8758/haemorhous-mexicanus-mcgregori-benito-house

 

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