单词 | blue chaffinch |
释义 | > as lemmasblue chaffinch 2. In full blue chaffinch, Teydean chaffinch. Either of two finches of the genus Fringilla, found only in the Canary Islands, F. teydea (of Tenerife) and F. polatzeki (of Gran Canaria), which have predominantly blue plumage in the male.These birds were originally regarded as one species, F. teydea. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Fringillinae > other types of painted finch1731 1873 H. E. Dresser Hist. Birds Europe (1881) IV. 26 This [sc. the high districts of Teneriffe] is the habitat of the Teydean Chaffinch; and hence the obscurity that envelops its habits and nidification. 1913 Bird Notes Mar. 66 The Blue or Teydean Chaffinch is larger than our English species. 1973 C. B. Cox et al. Biogeography iii. 66 In the most westerly island, Palma, from which the blue chaffinch is for some reason absent, F. coelebs occupies the same range of forest habitats as in Europe. 2003 I. Newton Speciation & Biogeogr. Birds iii. 89 These two chaffinches [sc. Fringilla coelebs and F. teydea] look different and occur together without interbreeding. < as lemmas |
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