Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Pallas, PS 1811)

Reference:
   Zoographia Rosso-Asiat. 2 p.21

Protonym:
  Passer arctous

Type locality:
  Yenisei River and eastern Siberia; restricted to Russian Altai by Kozlova, 1934, Ibis, p. 293.

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  5D703E6459F2611A

Avibase ID:
  avibase-5D703E64

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/5D703E64

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 179224

Geographic range:

• Leucosticte arctoa: subarctic to temperate central and northeastern Palearctic in Altai to eastern Russia in barren alpine rocky areas and snowfields: northeastern Kazakhstan, Altay, and Tuva regions (south-central Siberia) and western and northern Mongolia; disjunctly Baikal area to Sea of Okhotsk, Kamchatka, and northern Kuril Islands (eastern Russia), northwestern Inner Mongolia (far northern China), and (perhaps) central Hokkaido (northern Japan); winters to lowland Sakhalin, northeastern coastal China, Korean Peninsula, and Hokkaido to central Honshu (northern and central Japan)
• Leucosticte arctoa arctoa: Russian Altai
• Leucosticte arctoa cognata: Sayan Mountains and adjacent mountains on Russia/Mongolia border
• Leucosticte arctoa sushkini: northern Mongolia (Khangai region)
• Leucosticte arctoa brunneonucha: mountains of eastern Siberia (Lena River to Kamchatka and Kuril Islands)
• Leucosticte arctoa gigliolii: mountains north of Lake Baikal (eastward to Yablonovy Mountains)
• Leucosticte tephrocotis tephrocotis: mountains of Yukon and western Alberta to southeastern British Columbia and northwestern Montana
• Leucosticte tephrocotis irvingi: Brooks Range (northern Alaska)
• Leucosticte tephrocotis wallowa: Wallowa Mountains (northeastern Oregon); winters to west-central Nevada
• Leucosticte tephrocotis dawsoni: eastern California (Sierra Nevada, and White and Inyo mountains)
• Leucosticte tephrocotis [griseonucha or maxima]: Komandorskiye, Aleutian, and Kodiak islands to Alaska
• Leucosticte tephrocotis littoralis: central Alaska to southwestern Yukon, western Canada, and northwestern USA
• Leucosticte tephrocotis umbrina: St. Matthew Island and Pribilof Islands (Bering Sea)
• Leucosticte atrata: mountains of Idaho and Montana to Nevada and Utah; winters to Arizona
• Leucosticte australis: mountains of southeastern Wyoming, Colorado, and north-central New Mexico
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