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GKANiyOR.E. 
Family FFINGILLIDFE. ( Bonaparte. J 
Genus Fringilla. f Linnceus.) 
ALPINE SEEIN FINCH. 
Fringilla pusilla. 
Fringilla pusilla, 
Passer pusillus, 
Serinus “ 
Pyrrhula pusilla, 
Moineau des Alpes, 
Alpensperling , 
Gmelin. 
Pallas. 
Brandt. Bonaparte. 
Uegland. De Selts. 
Of the French. 
Of the Germans. 
Specific Characters. — Bump grey, spotted with blackish; abdo- 
men dirty white; primaries boi’dered 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 tbe borders of the Caspian Sea, to which 
it goes in spring from the high mountains in common 
with Fringilla nivalis and Sylvia erytlirogastra, 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, Avith the middle of the feathers fuscous; 
abdomen and under tail coverts Avhite. Feet black; 
beak fuscous.” 
