snowfinch
Snowfinches are a natural group{{Cite journal | last1=Päckert | first1=M. | last2=Hering | first2=J. | last3=Belkacem | first3=A.A. | last4=Sun | first4=Y.-H. | last5=Hille | first5=S. | last6=Lkhagvasuren | first6=D. | last7=Islam | first7=S. | last8=Martens | first8=J. | date=2021 | title=A revised multilocus phylogeny of Old World sparrows (Aves: Passeridae) | journal=Vertebrate Zoology | volume=71 | pages=353–366 | doi=10.3897/vz.71.e65952 | doi-access=free }} of small passerine birds in the sparrow family Passeridae. At one time all eight species were placed in the genus Montifringilla but they are now divided into three genera:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2018 | title=Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers | work=World Bird List Version 8.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/weavers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=6 May 2018 }}
- Montifringilla (3 species)
- In Europe, the name snowfinch is sometimes used for the white-winged snowfinch specifically
- Pyrgilauda (4 species)
- White-rumped snowfinch, Onychostruthus taczanowskii