in Great Britain during the Nesting-season. 37 
Siskin’s nest in a furze-bush, close to a fir-plantation, near to 
Bloxworth, Dorset. Meyer mentions a nest taken in Combe 
Wood. The bird is considered to have bred near Oxford 
(Rev. A. Mathews), and has been seen near Gloucester in the 
month of May. 
The nest has been found in Laneashire (Yarrell), near Walton 
Hall (Mr. Charles Waterton), in Durham (Mr. J. Hancock and 
Rev. H. B. Tristram) and in Westmoreland, according to Bolton, 
as quoted by Montagu. 
In the south of Scotland, the Siskin breeds occasionally in 
Dalswinton Woods, Dumfriesshire (Mr. W. G. Gibson); im 
Kirkeudbright (Yarrell); within two miles of Glasgow (Mr. R. 
Gray) ; in several counties of subprovince 28; in Perthshire, 
perhaps regularly ; in Argyleshire ; and, though not numerous 
as a species, may be considered to nest regularly in most of the 
northern counties of Scotland. 
FRINGILLA CANNABINA (Linn.). Linnet. 
Provinces I.-X VIII. 
Subprovinces 1-35, 37. 
Lat. 50°-60°. ‘‘ British” type, or general. 
Throughout the mainland ; and also breeds regularly in Ork- 
ney (Messrs. Baikie and Heddle and J. H, Dunn). 
FRINGILLA LINARIA (Linn.)*. Lesser Redpoll. 
Provinces II. III. IV. V. VIII.-X VIII. 
Subprovinces 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 18, 14, 15, 20-31, 32, 34, 35, 
37. 
Lat. 50°-60°. “Scottish ” type, or Northern. 
Nests occasionally in Dorset, Isle of Wight, Kent (Zoologist, 
p. 8951), Oxford, Warwick, and Shropshire; regularly in Nor- 
folk and Suffolk ; regularly in Nottingham (Rev. R. Sutton) and 
Derby (Rev. H. H. Crewe and Mr. O. Salvin), and thence 
northwards becomes more numerous, breeding in all the counties 
of the north of England and throughout Scotland. Low tells 
* We think there can be no doubt that the true Fringilla linaria of 
Linnzus is the bird usually called by English ornithologists the ‘* Mealy 
Redpoll ”’; the specific name proper to the “ Lesser Redpoll’’ would seem 
to be rufescens, Vieillot.—Ep. 
