GREENFINCH or GREEN LINNET, Ligurinus chloris, is a common European bird. The cock, in his plumage of yellowish-green and yellow, is finely coloured but heavily built, and his song is hardly to be commended. The hen is less brightly tinted. The species pervades almost the whole of Europe, and in Asia reaches the river Ob. It extends to Palestine, but is un known in Egypt. It is, however, abundant in north-west Africa. In the north-east of Asia and its adjacent islands occur two allied species—L. sinica, L. kawarahiba.