544 FRINGILLIDA, 
INSESSORES. FPRINGILLIDE. 
CONIROSTRES. 
THE SISKIN. 
Carduelis spinus. 
Fringilla spinus, The Siskin, Penn, Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 405. 
Monr. Suppl. to Ornith. Dict. 
Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 197. 
Fem. Brit. An. p. 85. 
” ”° C 99 
29 by] uy) 
bb) 3° 99 
Carduelis  ,, 5 SexBy, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 309. 
Fringilla ,, % Jzmnyns, Brit. Vert. p. 137. 
Carduelis  ,, a GouLp, Birds of Europe, pt. vii. 
Fringilla ,, Gros-bec tarin, Tem. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p. 371. 
Tue 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 
