38 ALPINE 8EBIN FINCH. 



GEANIVOR^. 

 Family FRINGILLID^. (Bonaparte.) 

 Genus Fringilla. (Linnceus.) 



ALPINE SEEIN FINCH. 



Fringilla pusilla. 



Frhigilla pusilla, Gmelin, 



" aurifrotis, Blasius. 



" rubifrons, Hay. 



" parvirostris, Gmelin; in M.S. 



Passer pusillus, Pallas. 



Serinus pusillus, Brandt. Bonaparte. 



Pyrrhula pusilla, Degland. De Selys. 



Metoponia pusilla, Gray; H. L., No. 7200. 



Moineau des Alpes, Of the French. 



Alpensperling, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Rump grey, spotted with blackish; abdomen dirty 

 white; primaries bordered with yellow in the adult, and with white in the 

 young. Length about four inches and a half. — -Degland. 



This species is said by Pallas to be common in the Caucasus and 

 the borders of the Caspian Sea, to which it goes in spring from the 

 high mountains in common with Fringilla nivalis and Sylvia erythro- 

 gastra, which come down in winter from the alpine regions of Persia. 



The following is the description given by Pallas: — "Forehead 

 testaceous red; vertex black. Neck and back grey, with the middle 

 of the feathers fuscous; abdomen and under tail coverts white. Feet 

 black; beak fuscous." 



The above description is thought by De Selys-Longchamps to apply 

 only to the young in the winter plumage. In the "Revue de 



