Your account of the greater brambling, or snow-fleck, is very amusing; and strange it is that such a short-winged bird should delight in such perilous voyages over the northern ocean!
"The-Natural-History-of-Selborne"
White, Gilbert
The other-F. montifringilla, known as the brambling-is more common in Northern Europe, and generally frequents the more northern latitudes of Asia as far as Japan.
"The History of the European Fauna"
R. F. Scharff