分属几个科的数百种喙圆锥形、以种子为食的小型鸣禽的统称。包括了︰加那利雀、主教雀、苍头燕雀、交嘴雀、加拉帕戈斯地雀、金翅、草雀、大嘴雀、雀和织布鸟。

• "Any of several hundred species of small, conical-Billed, seed-eating songbirds (in several families), including the Bunting, canary, cardinal, chaffinch, crossbill, Darwin's (Galapagos) finch, goldfinch, grass finch, grosbeak, sparrow, and weaver. "