Sillem's Mountain Finch

Taxobox
name = Sillem's Mountain-Finch
status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Fringillidae
genus = "Leucosticte"
species = "L. sillemi"
binomial = "Leucosticte sillemi"
binomial_authority = Roselaar, 1992
synonyms = 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 in the southern Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China. The bird is believed to have survived and there are no known threats to the species.

References

* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/11915/all Leucosticte sillemi] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 10 July 2007.
* BirdLife International (2007) Species factsheet: Leucosticte sillemi. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 14/8/2007