white-rumped snowfinch

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| image = White-rumped_Snowfinch_north_Sikkim_India_15.10.2019.jpg

| image_caption = From North Sikkim, India

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2018 |title=Onychostruthus taczanowskii |volume=2018 |page=e.T22718330A132117100 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22718330A132117100.en |access-date=13 November 2021}}

| parent_authority = Richmond, 1917

| taxon = Onychostruthus taczanowskii

| authority = (Przewalski, 1876)

| synonyms = * Montifringilla taczanowskii

}}

The white-rumped snowfinch (Onychostruthus taczanowskii) is a species of passerine bird in the sparrow family Passeridae. It is the only member of the genus Onychostruthus.{{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 | access-date=6 May 2018 }} It is sometimes placed in the genus Montifringilla.

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It is found in Tibet and central-northern China. Its natural habitats are rocky areas in mountainous regions.