Sillem's Mountain-Finch | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Fringillidae |
Genus: | Leucosticte |
Species: | L. sillemi |
Binomial name | |
Leucosticte sillemi Roselaar, 1992 |
The Sillem's Mountain-Finch (Leucosticte sillemi) is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found only in China and is only known from two specimens collected in 1929 from the Aksai Chin area of southern Xinjiang Autonomous Region. The bird is believed to have survived and there are no known threats to the species.