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