Crimson Finch (Neochmia phaeton) [XC706200]
by James Lambert from Leanyer, City of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia (song)
Crimson Finch (Neochmia phaeton) [XC405411]
by nick talbot from Kecamatan Merauke (near Merauke), Kabupaten Merauke, Papua, Indonesia (flight call)
Nest
Bottle-shaped and bulky, composed of dried grasses, bark, and leaves, lined with grass and feathers or fur, in tall grass, a bush or a pandanus tree, or in a man-made recepticle beneath a veranda.
Eggs (Guide)
5 - 8; plain white; oval; about 14 x 12 mm. Incubation: 12 - 14 days; by both sexes.
Young
Altricial, nidicolous. Fledge in about 20 - 21 days.
Subspecies
Proposed subspecies albiventer (described from Claudie R, in north-eastern Queensland) treated as a synonym of evangelinae.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
phaeton (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) - North-western Australia from King Sound, WA east to the lower reaches of Nicholson River in south-eastern Gulf of Carpentaria, north-western Qld, including the Kimberley Divide and Arnhem Land, and extending south to northern Fitzroy and the upper reaches of Ord and Victoria River Darinage Basins, WA - NT, and northern Barkly Tableland in NT - north-western Qld, with isolated outlier along north-eastern Qld coast between Princess Charlotte Bay and Broad Sound to the drainage basins of Lower Dawson and Mackenzie Rivers.
evangelinae D'Albertis & Salvadori, 1879 - Middle Cape York Peninsula from Iron Ranges and Albatross Bay south to Princes Charlotte Bay and the lower Mitchell River, and extralimitally in the Trans - Fly region, central - southern New Guinea. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, White-bellied Crimson Finch (Neochmia evangelinae).
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9
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