Sillem's Mountain Finch

Sillem's Mountain-Finch
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.

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