Fringilla

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Fringilla is

  • a genus of songbirds from the subfamily of noble finches
  • a main girdle asteroid: (709) Fringilla
  • the title of a now forgotten poem ( Fringilla or Tales in Verse , 1885) by the English poet Richard Doddridge Blackmore; American copyright 1895. The book became the text template for two famous illustrated books, one by the American Art Nouveaux artist Will H. Bradley (1868–1962), the other by the English artist Louis Fairfax-Muckley (1862–1926), that was close to the Arts and Crafts Movement . All three books appeared simultaneously in Cleveland, Ohio and London in 1895.
  • Short title of a story ( The Hair of Saint Fringilla , 1908) by the German author Otto Julius Bierbaum (1865–1910)