Obs. [a. Gr. θραυρίς.] A species of finch mentioned by Aristotle as feeding on thistles; generally taken to be the Siskin.
1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, VII. lxx. 900. The Thraupis [F. tarin] is of the continuance of sixe yeeres or there about, according as she is kept better or woorse…. Her singing is but yrkesome and tedious.
1910. Thompson, trans. Aristotle’s Hist. Anim., 592. The following and the like feed on thistles; to wit, the linnet, the thraupis, and the goldfinch.
