Tibetan Snowfinch
Montifringilla henrici(Oustalet, J-FÉ, 1892)
English (US) Tibetan Snowfinch
The Tibetan Snowfinch (Montifringilla henrici) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Passeridae (Snowfinches and Old World Sparrows) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: eastern Tibetan Plateau (northeastern Xizang, Qinghai)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Montifringilla henrici
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Tibetan Snowfinch
- Described by
- (Oustalet, J-FÉ, 1892)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Eurhinospiza Henrici
- Described by
- (Oustalet, J-FÉ, 1892)
- Type locality
- 'plateaux du Tibet' = Ditchi [DitiJ east of the Tengri Nor, according to Oustalet (1894 or 1895, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris), ser. 3, 6, p. 25).
- Original description
- Annales des Sciences Naturelles Zoologie (7), Tome XII, Article no.9 p.293 (in text), pl. 11
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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