Dear Sir,—The birds that I took for aberdavines were reed-sparrows (passeres torquati).
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Dear Sir,—The birds that I took for aberdavines were reed-sparrows (passeres torquati).
Source: wiktionary
This bird seems not to have been described by any of the ornithologists; it is of the finch tribe, and about the same size with our aberdavine (or siskin).
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