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Bullfinch

Bullfinch is a name given to two groups of passerine birds.

The true bullfinches are thick-billed finches in the passerine family Fringillidae. They comprise the genus Pyrrhula . These birds are restricted to the Old World, and are:

There is an unrelated group of New World birds also named as bullfinches because of their superficial resemblances to the above species. These passerines are the large bunting and North American sparrow family Emberizidae. Three are in the genus Loxigilla :

The fourth is