48 FRINGILLID.E. 



Chrysomitris spinus. SISKIN. 



Fringilla Spinus, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 322 (1766). 

 Fringilla spinus, Naum. v. p. 155; Hewitson, p. 198; Gray, 



p. 96; Harting, p. 27. 

 Carduelis spinus, Macg. i. p. 400; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 544 ; id. 



ed. 3, i. p. 571 ; Newton, ii. p. 126. 



Chrysomitris spinus, Gould, iii. pi. 37; Dresser, iii. p. 541. 

 Siskin, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 496. 



Spmus = (TTrivos or arrives, a small bird commonly eaten at Athens ; from 

 its shrill piping cry, <nriu) = I chirp shrilly. 



A winter visitant to nearly every county, though rare in 

 Cornwall and Shetland, and unknown in Orkney. It breeds 

 regularly in many parts of Scotland, and occasionally in 

 Ireland and England. It is found throughout the temperate jf '' 

 portions of the Palaearctic Region. 



[Genus CRITHAGRA, Swainson, Zool. Journ. iii. p. 348 



(1827). 



Crithagra, from KpWq = barley, and dypa = hunting. 



Crithagra chrysopyga. YELLOW-EUMPED SEED-EATER. 



Crithagra chrysopyga, Swainson, Birds W. Africa, 

 i. p. 206, fig. 17 (1837). 



Crithagra chrysopyga, Newton, ii. p. 112, note. 



Chrysopyga = golden-rumped, from xpvaos + Trvyrj. 



One was reported by Mr. W. Hazel (Nat. 1853, p. 20) as 

 having been taken near Portsmouth ; it had probably escaped 

 from captivity. A native of Africa.] 



Genus SERINUS, Koch, Syst. d. baier. Zool. p. 228 (1816). 



Serinus, latinized from the French Serin, which is corrupted from citrinus = 

 citron-coloured, KtrpTvos, from Kirpiov the citron-tree. 





