Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, Universidad de Oriente, Cumana 6101, Estado Sucre, Venezuela; Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 5209 CNRS-Universite de Bourgogne, 9. Av. A. Savary, BP 47870, F-21078 Dijon Cedex, France; Groupe de Spectrometrie Moleculaire et Atmospherique, CNRS UMR 6089, Moulin de la Housse, BP 1039, Cases 16-17, F-51687 Reims Cedex 2, France; Laboratoire de Chimie quantique et Photophysique, CP160/09, Faculte des Sciences, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 50 ave. Roosevelt, B-1050, Brussels, Belgium; V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS,1, Zuev Square, Tomsk, 634921, RussiaEthylene is a naturally occurring compound in ambient air that affects atmospheric chemistry and global climate. The C2βH4β spectrum is available in databases only for the 1000 and 3000 cmβ1 ranges. In this work, {\em J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer\/}, {\bf 111}, 2265--2278 (2010).}, the ethylene absorption spectrum was measured in the 6030-6250 cmβ1 range with the use of a high resolution Bruker IFS 125HR Fourier-spectrometer and a two-channel opto-acoustic spectrometer with a diode laser. As a secondary standard of wavelengths, the methane absorption spectrum was used in both cases. A preliminary analysis was realized thanks to the tensorial formalism developed by the Dijon group that is implemented in the XTDS software package, {\bf 251}, 102--113 (2008).}. We considered the two combination bands Ξ½5β+Ξ½9β and Ξ½5β+Ξ½11β as an interacting dyad. Parameters for the Ξ½9β/Ξ½11β dyad were fitted simultaneously from a re-analysis of previously recorded supersonic expansion jet FTIR data, while parameters for the v5β=1 Raman level were taken from literature. More than 600 lines could be assigned in the 6030-6250 cmβ1 region (and also 682 in the 2950--3150 cmβ1 region) and effective Hamiltonian parameters were fitted, including Coriolis interaction parameters. The dyad features are globally quite well reproduced, even if there are still problems at high J values