单词 | house finch |
释义 | > as lemmashouse finch house finch n. the North American finch Carpodacus mexicanus, related to the rosefinches, the male of which has a red forehead, throat, and breast; spec. the widespread subspecies C. m. frontalis.Several subspecies of C. mexicanus were formerly regarded as separate species. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Carpodacus (rose-finch) purple finch1731 house finch1816 rosefinch1840 purple bullfinch1862 scarlet rosefinch1884 1816 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. ii. 429 House Finch... This well known bird is about six inches in length. 1869 Amer. Naturalist 3 183 About the gardens [in California] is the House Finch. 1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. III. 7 House Finch... Other names [include] Crimson-fronted Finch; Red-headed Linnet [etc.]. 1961 O. L. Austin Birds of World (1962) 302/2 Very similar to the Purple Finch is the slightly smaller and brighter Mexican House Finch, a common garden bird from California southward through Mexico. 2008 Nature 20 Nov. 284/1 The house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) has joined the short list of birds that can smell, apparently using this sense to detect predators. < as lemmas |
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