RAE XV IE PINES SISKIN.” PINE FINGH: PINE LINNET. 
Spinus pinus. 
Above streaked with greenish-brown and dingy white; beneath 
dingy white streaked with light brown ; wings dusky, with two light 
bands and many of the feathers edged with lighter; tail dusky, the 
feathers with lighter edges, forked; the whole body has a tinge of 
yellow, most noticeable on the rump and on the tail-feathers ; bill and 
feet brown. Length, 4.75 inches. 
Migratory. A Winter visitor, seen here in flocks from October to March. Flight 
undulatory. Mr. Burroughs describes its song as ‘‘singularly secret and elusive * * * 
delicate and plaintive ; a thin, wavering, tremulous whistle, which disappoints one, 
however, as it ends when it seems only to have begun.” He elsewhere calls this Finch : 
“A dark brown or brindlish bird allied to the common Yellowbird, which it much 
resembles in its manners and habits.”’ It nests in trees, and, conformably to the sug- 
gestion conveyed by its name, oftenest in those of the pine species. 
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