Spot-winged Rosefinch

Spot-winged Rosefinch / Carpodacus rodopeplus

Spot-winged Rosefinch

Here the details of the Spot-winged Rosefinch named bird below:

SCI Name:  Carpodacus rodopeplus
Protonym:  Fringilla rodopepla Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 no.2 p.23
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae /
Taxonomy Code:  spwros2
Type Locality:  Himalayas ; restricted to Simla-Almora district by Ticehurst and Whistler, 1924, Ibis, p. 471.
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Publish Year:  1831
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DEFINITIONS

CARPODACUS
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Pallas's Rosefinch C. roseus) Gr. καρπος karpos  fruit; δακος dakos  biter  < δακνω daknō  to bite; "6. Pyrrhula rosea, longicauda, erythrina.   ...   6. Karminfink. Carpodacus *).   E[ntwickelung]. Wie bei Coccothraustes, Chloreus und Pyrrhula.   Ch[arakter]. Hänflinge mit dickem, gewölbtem Schnabel.   L[ebensart]. Sie leben nur von Beeren und Samereien, und haben wenig natürlichen Gesang.   ...   *) Von καρπος, Frucht und δακνω, beißen." (Kaup 1829); "Carpodacus Kaup, 1829, Skizz. Entw. Nat. Syst., 1, p. 161. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1842, List Genera Birds, ed. 2, appen., p. 11), Fringilla rosea Pallas." (Paynter in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 267).   
Var. CarpodagusCardopagus.   
Synon. Chaunoproctus, Erythrina, Erythrothorax, Haematospiza, Kozlowia, Papa, Phoenicospiza, Propasser, Propyrrhula, Pyrrhospiza, Pyrrhulinota, Rubicilla, Uragus.

rodopepla / rodopeplus
Gr. ῥοδοπεπλος rhodopeplos roseate-robed < ῥοδον rhodon rose; πεπλος peplos robe.