Species profile
Taiwan Bullfinch
Pyrrhula owstoni
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 714757, adult male, collected on A-li Shan (5 Mount Arizan), 23.32 N, 120.48 E (USBGN, 1974), Taiwan (5 Formosa, as on label), on 4 December ‘‘ 1907, ’’ by collectors for Alan Owston. From the Rothschild Collection.
- Scientific name
- Pyrrhula owstoni
- Family
- Fringillidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Pyrrhula
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