FRINGILLID^. 



Chrysomitris spinus. Siskin. 



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

 Friugilla 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. 



Spinus = (Tirivos or airlvos, a small bird commonly eaten at Athena ; from 

 its shrill piping cry, (TttH^id = 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 

 portions of the Palaearctic Region. 



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



(1827). 



Crltluigra, from icpZSij = barley, and aypa = hunting. 



Crifhagra chrysopyga. Yellow-rvmpeb Seed-eater. 



Crithagra chrysopyga, Swainson, Birds W. Africa, 

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



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



Chrysopyga = golden-rumped, from xpwo-os + wvyi). 



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). 



Serinns, latinized from the French Serin, which is corrupted from citnnus^ 

 citron-coloured, /ciVpivos, from Kirpiov = the citron-tree. 



