Location: Turkey east through Central Asia, the Himalayan, Tibet and northwest China.Descriptions:
- Size: 5 inches.
- Adult breeding plumage: bright red patch on forehead, sooty black head and breast; breast streaked black, rest of underpart yellowish. Sexes are alike.
- Juvenile: very streaky, with rust-brown or dull chestnut on face and forehead; pale yellowish-buff wingbars.
- Call: is a rather rapid ringing trill 'trilit-drillt'.
- Song: is very similar to the European Serin, but softer and more Goldfinch-like in quality, melodious rippling trills, interspersed with twittering notes, rather hurried, and many phrases repeated.
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