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The European greenfinch, or just greenfinch (''Chloris chloris'') is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. This bird is widespread throughout Europe, north Africa and south west Asia. It is mainly resident, but some northernmost populations migrate further south. The greenfinch has also been introduced into both Australia and New Zealand. In Malta it is considered a prestigious song bird which has been trapped for many years. It has been domesticated and many Maltese people breed them. ==Taxonomy== The greenfich was described by Linnaeus in 1758 in the 10th edition of his ''Systema Naturae'' under the binomial name of ''Loxia chloris''. ''Chloris'' is from the Greek ''Khloros'' meaning "green" or "yellowish-green". The finch family, Fringillidae, is divided into two subfamilies, the Carduelinae, containing around 28 genera with 141 species and the Fringillinae containing a single genus, ''Fringilla'', with 3 species. The finch family are all seed-eaters with stout conical bills. They have similar skull morphologies, nine large primaries, twelve tail feathers and no crop. In all species the female bird builds the nest, incubates the eggs and broods the young. Fringilline finches raise their young almost entirely on arthropods while the cardueline finches raise their young on regurgitated seeds. Phylogenetic analysis based on DNA sequence data indicated that the greenfinches were not closely related to other members of the ''Carduelis'' genus. They have therefore been placed in a separate genus ''Chloris''.〔 There are ten recognised subspecies: * ''C. c. harrisoni'' Clancey, 1940 – Britain (except northern Scotland) and Ireland * ''C. c. chloris'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – northern Scotland, northern and central France and Norway to western Siberia * ''C. c. muehlei'' Parrot, 1905 – Serbia and Montenegro to Moldovia, Bulgaria and Greece * ''C. c. aurantiiventris'' (Cabanis, 1851) – southern Spain through southern Europe to western Greece * ''C. c. madaraszi'' Tschusi, 1911 – Corsica and Sardinia * ''C. c. vanmarli'' Voous, 1952 – northwestern Spain, Portugal and northwestern Morocco * ''C. c. voousi'' (Roselaar, 1993) – central Morocco and northern Algeria * 'C. c. chlorotica'' (Bonaparte, 1850) – south-central Turkey to northeastern Egypt 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「European greenfinch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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