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Pyrrhula

Pyrrhula is a small genus of passerine birds, commonly called bullfinches, belonging to the finch family (Fringillidae). The genus has a Palearctic distribution; almost all species occur in Asia, with two species exclusively in the Himalayas and one species, P. pyrrhula, also occurring in Europe. The Azores bullfinch is a critically endangered species, occurring only in the east of the island of São Miguel in the Azores archipelago.

Taxonomy
The genus Pyrrhula was introduced in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson. The name was derived by tautonymy from the binomial name of the Eurasian bullfinch Loxia pyrrhula introduced by Linnaeus in 1758. The bullfinches in the genus Pyrrhula are sister to the pine grosbeak, the only species placed in the genus Pinicola. Species , illustrated by William Matthew Hart, 1888 There are eight extant and one extinct recognized species in the genus: • †Greater Azores bullfinch, Pyrrhula crassa == References ==
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