Mongolian Finch

Here the details of the Mongolian Finch named bird below:

SCI Name:  Bucanetes mongolicus
Protonym:  Carpodacus mongolicus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.447
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Bucanetes
Taxonomy Code:  monfin2
Type Locality:  Kerning, between Kalgan and Nankow, southern Chahar, China.
Author:  Swinhoe
Publish Year:  1870
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

BUCANETES
(Fringillidae; † Trumpeter Finch B. githagineus) Gr. βυκανητης bukanētēs  trumpeter  < βυκανη bukanē  trumpet, war horn; "Gen. BUCANETES nov. gen. ***) Trompetengimpel.  822. 1. B. githagineus Nob. — Fringilla githaginea Licht. Doubl. p. 24. No. 242. — Pyrrhula githaginea Temm. Pl. col. 400. fig. 1. 2. — Pyrrhula Payraudaei Audouin Descript. de l'Egypte Zool. I. pag. 286. tab. 5. fig. 8. — Erythrospiza githaginea Bonap. Osserv. Règne anim. de Cuv. pag. 80. No. 3. — id. Bonap. Jconogr. Faun. ital. I. tab. 35. fig. 3. — id. Bonap. List. pag. 34. No. 228. — Pyrrhula githaginea Bl. Keysl. Wirbelth. Eur. Vög. N. 111   Carpodacus Payraudaei Gray Gen. Birds No. 6. — id. Cab. in Ersch u. Gruber Encycl. l. c. p. 218. N. 5.  Erythrospiza githaginea Bonap. Schleg. Mon. Lox. p. 29. tab. 33. — Gould Birds Eur. tab. 208.   ...   ***) Von βυκανητης, ου, ὁ, der Trompeter.  Von Carpodacus schon genügend durch die längeren spitzeren Flügel und den kürzeren Schwanz verscheiden, ebenso durch weniger breiten Schnabel, festeres Gefieder und Färbung.  Hierher: B. obsoletus. — Fringilla obsoleta Licht in Eversm. Reise App. p. 132." (Cabanis 1853); "Bucanetes Cabanis, 1851, Mus. Heineanum, 1, p. 164.  Type, by subsequent designation, G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 81. Pyrrhula payraudæi Audouin, 1825 = Fringilla githaginea M. H. K. Lichtenstein, 1823.  Cabanis originally included two species, therefore type 'by monotypy' as cited by Howell et al. (1968: 263) is incorrect." (Kirwan and Gregory, 2005, Bull. British Ornith. Club, 125 (1), p. 77).
Var. Bucanestes, Buchanetes, Bycanetes.
Synon. Eremopsaltria.

mongola / mongolica / mongolicus / mongolus
Mongolia. Until the early part of the 20^th century Mongolia was considered to include western Manchuria and parts of northern China.