Golden-naped Finch
Pyrrhoplectes epauletta(Hodgson, BH, 1836)
English (US) Golden-naped Finch
The Golden-naped Finch (Pyrrhoplectes epauletta) 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 Fringillidae (Finches, Euphonias, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: montane forest of northern India to southwestern China, southeastern Tibet, and northern MyanmarRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pyrrhoplectes epauletta
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Golden-naped Finch
- Described by
- (Hodgson, BH, 1836)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Pyrrhula epauletta
- Described by
- (Hodgson, BH, 1836)
- Type locality
- northern and central Nepal.
- Original description
- Asiatic Researches; or, Transactions of the Society instituted in Bengal, for enquiring into the history, the antiquities, the arts and sciences, and literature of Asia 19 p.156
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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