Sillem's mountain finch

The Sillem's Mountain-Finch 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 from the Aksai Chin area of southern Xinjiang Autonomous Region. The bird is believed to have survived and there are no known threats to the species.

The Sillem's mountain finch is classified as Data Deficient (DD), inadequate information to make a direct, or indirect, assessment of its risk of extinction.

Sillem's Mountain Finch Leucosticte sillemi is a poorly known species from the high altitudes of the western Tibetan Plateau, recently described from a single adult male and a juvenile; the female is still unknown. The adult male resembles adult L. brandti pallidior (a species in which both sexes are similar), but the head is tawny-cinnamon (unlike L. More