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bafe of the wings a. gold-colour underneath, and of a yellowifh- 

 red above ; the wings black, variegated in the middle with a 

 tranfverfe bar of white, and a yellowifli-red ; the white extended 

 through the five fail-feathers. The tail is black, forked, and 

 edged with a yellowifh-red, in lighter and deeper fliades. It is 

 twelve inches between the tips of the wings extended. The bird 

 here defcribed was taken in a fnare at Weldon, near Harelo<w-\u\\ t 

 and prefented to me. 



31. The Si/kin (i), an elegant little fong-bird appears by our 

 river-fides, among alder-trees, about the fame time as the 

 Brambling or Mountain-Finch, in great frofts and fnows. It is kept 

 in cages about Hexham for its fong. 



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32. The Titlark (k) vifits us in the beginning of May, if the 

 weather is fine, and leaves us in the beginning of September. It 

 is confiderably lefs than the fky-lark ; meafures between the tips 



(!) Spinus f. Ligurinus, (Ji TW Xiyupo T^J <>, a vocis argutic,) THE SISKIN : quern 

 GESNERUS eandem avem cum 5rrnquafi SIRENE, a vocis dulcedine, facit. Nee immerito 

 quidem, ut ex fimul collatis defcriptionibus colligere eft. Eft rara avis, in frigidioribus re- 

 gionibus non nifl rarenter apparens, nee in ANGLIA plus quam femel vel a TURNERO vifa. 



Charlet. Aves. p. 87. n. 2. Will. Orn. p. 192. t. 46. Raj. Av. p. 91. n. i. Frin- 



gilla rernigibus medio luteis ; primis quatuor immaculatis ; reflricibus duabus extimis, rsli- 

 quifque apice, albis. Linn. Faun..Suec. p. 77. n. 203. fequenti defcriptione. 



" Corpus fupra cinereo-luteum, ita ut omnis penna interius cinerea, exterius lutea macula 

 " nigricante. Corpus fubtus cinereo-album macula in fmgula penna nigricante. gula albo 

 " flavicat. remiges nigrae circa bafm anterius flavs. pofterius albidoe; hinc lutea macula in 

 " ala, at primae pennx quatuor tots nigrae. Reftriccs lutex apicibus nigris, fed fingulaa 

 " utrinque extims & duas iatermedias totas nigras." 



(k) Alauda Pratorum, ALDROV. Will. Orn. p. 150. Raj. Av. p. 69. n. 3. Alauda 

 lineola fuperciliorum alba, reflricibus duabus extimis introrf.im albis. Linn. Faun. Suec. 

 n. 191. 



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