340 SISKIN. Class II. 



beneath each ear : the bread and belly of a dirty 

 white. Juft above the greater coverts is a row of 

 feathers black edged with white •, the greater co- 

 verts are black edged with riift color : quil fea- 

 thers dufky, edged with pale red : lower part of 

 the back of an olive brown : tail brown : le^js 



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llraw color. 



Thefe birds are very common in Lincoln/hire \ 

 are converfant among trees, and colle6t like the 

 common kind in great flocks. 



129. Siskin. Belon a^u. 354. ^ Fringilla fpinus. Lin. fyji, 



Acanthis, fpinus, Hgurinus. 322. 



Gefner a<v. \. Siika, Gronfifka. Faten, Suec, 



Aldr. am. II. 352. fp. 237. 



Lucarino. Olina, 17. Sifgen. Brunnichy 261. 



Wil orn. 261. Zeifel, Zeiferl. Kram. 366. 



Raii/yn. av. 91. Frifch, I. 2. Scopoli, No. 



Le Serin. Brijfon au. III. 212. 



(i^* j^r. Zool. 109. plate V. 



Descrip. ^ a *HE head of the male is black: the neck 

 Jl and back green •, but the fhafts on the lat- 

 ter are black : the rump is of a greenifh yellow : 

 the throat and breafl: the fame : the belly white : 

 the vent-feathers yellowifh, marked with oblong 

 duflcy fpots in their middle : the pinion quil is 

 duflcy edged with green : the outward webs of the 

 nine next quil-feathers are green ; the green part is 

 widened by degrees in every feather, till in the laft 

 it takes up half the length : from the tenth almoft 



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