Yellow-crowned Canary
Serinus flavivertex(Blanford, WT, 1869)
English (US) Yellow-crowned Canary
The Yellow-crowned Canary (Serinus flavivertex) 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.
- Scientific name
- Serinus flavivertex
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Yellow-crowned Canary
- Described by
- (Blanford, WT, 1869)
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Add Your ExpertiseRecognised subspecies
The AviList checklist recognises 3 subspecies for this species.
- Serinus flavivertex flavivertex
- Serinus flavivertex sassii
- Serinus flavivertex huillensis
Taxonomic history
- First described as
- Crithagra flavivertex
- Described by
- (Blanford, WT, 1869)
- Type locality
- 'Tigre', Abyssinia; type from Adigrat, Tigre Province, Abyssinia, fide W. L. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., p. 817.
- Original description
- The Annals and Magazine of Natural History including Zoology, Botany, and Geology ser.4, vol.4, no.23 p.330
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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