142 CLASS AVES. 



Tlie Great Red-headed Limiet. Fring. Cannahina. 

 Lin. Enl. 485. t. 151, f. 2. Old Male. 



Back, fawn-coloured brown ; quills of the wing and 

 tail, black, edged with white ; whitish underneath ; 

 of a fine red on the head and chest of the old male. 

 Often nestles in the vines, otherwise in coppices and 

 bushes. 



An intermediate species, more approxunating to 

 the second (Fring. Montimn. Gm. Naum. 122.) 

 comes to us sometimes from the north. Its bill is 

 yellow, and the crupper of the male a little red. 



Other species, more or less greenish, bear the 

 names of Serins or Siskins. 



TTw Common Siskin. Fring. Spinus. Enl. t. 485. 

 f 3. Male, Alb. t. 76. 



Has also the bill more approximating to the gold- 

 finch, and resembles in many points the small linnet. 

 It is olive above, yellow beneath ; a coif, the wing, 

 and tail, black 5 two yellow bands on the wing. It 

 nestles only in the summits of fir-trees. 



Citril Finch. Fringilla Citrinella. L. Enl. 658,2. 



Rather olive above ; yellow underneath ; the hind 

 part of the head and neck, ash. 



Ilie Serin Fifich. Fring. Serinus. Lin. (Enl. 658. 

 1. Naum. 123.) 



Olive above, yellowish beneath ; spotted with brown ; 



