Rhodopechys
The crimson-winged finch (''Rhodopechys sanguineus'') is a pale-colored thickset Fringillidae, finch with a heavy, dull yellowish bill. It is the only species placed in the genus ''Rhodopechys''. It is found in North Africa and from Turkey to northeast Pakistan. The crimson-winged finch has sometimes been split into two species, the African crimson-winged finch and the Asian crimson-winged finch. Taxnomy The crimson-winged finch was species description, formally described in 1838 by the English ornithologist John Gould based on a specimen collected at Erzurum in eastern Turkey. He placed the species with the finches in the genus ''Fringilla'' and coined the binomial name ''Fringilla sanguinea''. The specific epithet is Latin meaning "bloody", from ''sanguis'', ''sanguinis'' meaning "blood". The crimson-winged finch is now the only species placed in the genus ''Rhodopechys'' that was introduced in 1851 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis with the crimson-winged finch as the ...
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