Carpodacus mexicanus mcgregori Anthony, 1897
McGregor’s housefinch, San Benito housefinch
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Haemorhous mexicanus mcgregori Anthony, 1897
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1938
Distribution
Isla San Benito, Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Anthony, A. W. (1897). New Birds From the Islands and Peninsula of Lower California. The Auk 14(2): 164-168.
Other references:
Boswall, S. (1978). The birds of the San Benito Islands, Lower California, México. Bristol Ornithology 11: 23-32.
Collar, N.J., Newton, I., Clement, P. and Arkhipov, V. (2010). Family Fringillidae (Finches). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 15: Weavers to New World Warblers (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and D.A. Christie eds). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Hill, Geoffrey E. (1993). Geographic variation in the carotenoid plumage pigmentation of male house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 49: 63-86, 6 fig.
Knox, Alan G. and Walters, Michael P. (1994). Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications 1: 1-292. [p. 259]