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Agraphospiza rubescens
Habitat
Boreal forest
Range
Bhutan, China, India and Nepal
Blanford's rosefinch, or the crimson rosefinch, is a finch found in Bhutan, China, India and Nepal. Its natural habitat is boreal forest. It differs from the Carpodacus rosefinches in that both sexes have unstreaked plumage, with a thinner, less conical bill, more pointed wings and a shorter tail (Wikipedia, general species account).
It was formerly placed in Carpodacus but was moved to the monotypic genus Agraphospiza on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA evidence. The common name commemorates the English zoologist William Thomas Blanford. The source read gives no size, diet or breeding information, so none is stated.