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A PRESUMED natural goldfinch × greenfinch (Carduelis carduelis × C. chloris1) hybrid was trapped near the town of Parma in September 1960. This bird is the second one captured in these surroundings, the first having been trapped in 19512. The bird answers quite well the description of the goldfinch × greenfinch male hybrids reared in captivity2: it has the shape, the size and the heavy, whitish bill of the greenfinch, a small orange mask like the scarlet one of the goldfinch, a yellow wing-bar as in the goldfinch and yellow on the external vane of the primaries as in both of the supposed parental species.
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MAINARDI, D. Immunogenetic Confirmation of the Origin of a Presumed Natural Hybrid between Goldfinch and Greenfinch. Nature 194, 111 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194111a0
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