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GKANIVOILE. 



Family FRINGILLIDJE. ( Bonaparte.) 



Genus Fringilla. ( 'Linnaeus.) 



ALPINE SEBIN FINCH. 



Fringilla pusilla. 



Fringilla pusilla, Gmelin. 



Passer pusillus, Pallas. 



Serinus " Beandt. Bonaparte. 



Pyrrhula pusilla, Degland. De Selts. 



Moineau des Alpes, Op the French. 



Alpensperling, Op the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Rump grey, spotted with, blackish; abdo- 

 men 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 erijthrogastra, 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." 



