American rosefinch

American rosefinches
	House Finch
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Fringillidae
Subfamily:	Carduelinae
Genus:	Haemorhous; Kaup, 1829

The american rosefinches are birds in the finch family Fringillidae. The Haemorhous species are closely related to the Carpodacus "rosefinches". As the name implies, various shades of red are the characteristic plumage colours of this group.

American rosefinches are found throughout the North American continent.

Systematics

There have been a number of rosefinch radiations. One of the first to split off were the ancestors of the North American species and diverged in the Middle Miocene (about 14–12 mya) from the proto-rosefinches.^[1]

Species

American rosefinches (Haemorhous, as now accepted by the American Ornithologists Union,^[2] or Burrica)
- Cassin's Finch, Haemorhous cassinii
- Purple Finch, Haemorhous purpureus
- House Finch, Haemorhous mexicanus

References

^ Banks, Richard C. (July, 1995). "Comments on the Status of Revived Old Names for Some North American Birds" (PDF). The Auk. 112 (3). Berkeley, California: University of California Press: 633–648. JSTOR 4088679. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
^ Chesser, R. Terry; et al. (2012). "Fifty-third Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds" (PDF). The Auk. 129 (3): 573–588. Retrieved 2012-07-18. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |author-separator= ignored (help)

[1] Banks, Richard C. (July, 1995). "Comments on the Status of Revived Old Names for Some North American Birds" (PDF). The Auk. 112 (3). Berkeley, California: University of California Press: 633–648. JSTOR 4088679. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

[2] Chesser, R. Terry; et al. (2012). "Fifty-third Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds" (PDF). The Auk. 129 (3): 573–588. Retrieved 2012-07-18. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |author-separator= ignored (help)

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