Lewis & Short

fringilla (also frigilla and frin-guilla), ae, f., a small bird, perh. the robin redbreast, Motacilla rubecula, Linn.; acc. to others, the chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs, Linn.; Varr. L. L. 7, § 104; Mart. 9, 55, 7; Paul. ex Fest. p. 90 Müll.