Grey-capped Greenfinch (Chloris sinica) [XC703756]
by Ray Tsu \u8bf8\u4ec1 from Haiwan Forest Park, Fengxian, Shanghai, China (song)
Grey-capped Greenfinch (Chloris sinica) [XC841036]
by Frank Lambert from Kibi taki Rest house (near Karuizawa), Kitasaku District, Nagano, Japan (call)
Subspecies chabarovi sometimes subsumed in ussuriensis. In Japan, proposed subspecies sitchitoensis (described from Hachijo, in Izu Is) synonymized with minor; tokumii, from Kanzaki-machi (Kanzaki-gun area, in north-eastern Saga Prefecture), in south-western Kyushu, synonymized with minor.
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
sinica (Linnaeus, 1766) - Central, eastern and south-eastern China and north-eastern and central Vietnam (eastern Tonkin and central and southern Annam).
ussuriensis Hartert, 1903 - North-eastern China (south-eastern Inner Mongolia east to southern Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Hebei), Korea and south-eastern Russia (southern Ussuriland).
kawarahiba (Temminck, 1836) - Eastern Russia (north-central Okhotsk coast and Kamchatka), Sakhalin I, Kuril Is, and northern Japan (north-eastern Hokkaido). Non-breeding also south to south-eastern China.
minor (Temminck & Schlegel, 1848) - Extreme southern Korea (Cheju-do I) and Japan (southern Hokkaido south to Kyushu, including Tsushima I and Izu Is).
kittlitzi (Seebohm, 1890) - Ogasawara-shoto (Bonin Is) and Iwo Is.
chabarowi Stegmann, 1929 - Russian Far East (Amurland) and north-eastern China (eastern Inner Mongolia and northern Heilongjiang).