Also alpe: see AWBE, OLPH. [Origin unknown.] A bullfinch.

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c. 1400.  Rom. Rose, 658. Alpes, fynches, and wodewales.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., Alpe, a bryde, Ficedula.

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1678.  Ray, Willughby’s Ornith., 247. The Bulfinch, Alp or Nope, Rubicilla seu Pyrrhula.

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1843.  Yarrell, Brit. Birds, I. Index 13. Alp, a name for the Bull-finch.

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