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INSESSORES. 

 CONIROSTRES. 



FRINGILLWM. 



THE SISKIN. 



Fringilla spinus, The Siskin, 



Carduelis ,, 



Fringilla 



Carduelis 



Fringilla 



Carduelis spinus. 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 405. 



,, MONT. Suppl. to Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 197. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 85. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 309. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 137. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. vii. 



Gros-bec tarin, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 371, 



THE SISKIN, or Aberdevine, as it is also called, is a visitor 

 to this country, arriving in flocks from the North in autumn, 

 and comes generally in company with the Lesser Redpole, 

 to be hereafter described, many of which also pass the 

 summer in high northern latitudes. The Siskin appears to 

 be much more plentiful in the North than with us in the 

 South ; and there seems to be no doubt that some, perhaps 



