Mountain oak groves [1] , or Central Asian oak groves , or juniper oak stands ( lat. Mycerobas ), is a genus of songbirds of the family finch (Fringillidae) [2] . All species live in Asia. The body length is from 21 to 23 cm. Sexual dimorphism is expressed . The natural habitat of the species is coniferous, mixed and deciduous forests. Food consists of berries and seeds.
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 Black and gold mountain oak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mycerobas Cabanis , 1847 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification
As of April 2018, 4 species are included in the genus [2] :
- Mycerobas affinis (Blyth, 1855) - Collared Mountain Dubonok
- Mycerobas carnipes (Hodgson, 1836) - juniper oak-tree , or juniper mountain oak-tree
- Mycerobas icterioides (Vigors, 1830) - Black-gold mountain oak-tree
- Mycerobas melanozanthos (Hodgson, 1836) - Multi - winged mountain oak-tree
Notes
- ↑ Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 435. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- ↑ 1 2 Finches, euphonias, longspurs, Thrush-tanager : [ eng. ] / F. Gill & D. Donsker (Eds). // IOC World Bird List (v 8.1). - 2018 .-- DOI : 10.14344 / IOC.ML.8.1 . (Retrieved May 7, 2018) .
Literature
- Horst Bielfeld. Zeisige, Girlitze, Gimpel und Kernbeißer, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3675-9 .