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GREENFINCH (Ger. Griinfink), or GREEN LINNET

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 541 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GRA-GUI
GREENFINCH (Ger. Griinfink), or GREEN LINNET , as it is very often called, a common
European
 
bird
 , the Fringilla chloris of
Linnaeus
 , ranked by many systematists with one
section
  of haw-finches, Coccothraustes, but apparently more nearly allied to the other
section
  Hesperiphona, and perhaps justifiably deemed the type of a distinct genus, to which the name Chlorin or Ligurinus has been applied. The
cock
 , in his plumage of yellowish-green and yellow is one of the most finely coloured of common
English
  birds, but he is rather heavily built, and his song is hardly commended. The hen is much less brightly tinted: Throughout Britain, as a
rule
 , this species is one of the most plentiful birds, and is found at all seasons of the year. It pervades almost the whole of Europe, and in
Asia
  reaches the river Ob. It visits Palestine, but is unknown in
Egypt
 . It is, however, abundant in Mauritania, whence specimens are so brightly coloured that they have been deemed to form a distinct species, the Ligurinus aurantiiventris of Dr Cabanis, but that view is now generally abandoned. In the north-
east
  of
Asia
  and its adjacent islands occur two allied speciesthe Fringilla sinica of
Linnaeus
  and the F. kawarahiba of Temminck. (A. N.)


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