982 PASSERES. FRINGILLA. SisKIn. 
with pale arterial blood-red. Wing-coverts blackish- 
brown, margined and tipped with pale yellowish-brown. © 
Quills hair-brown; margined with reddish-white. Tail 
the same, and considerably forked. Legs and toes 
blackish-brown. 
In the female the forehead has the brown mixed with yel- 
lowish white. The lower ‘part of the neck, and upper 
part of the breast are of pale wood-brown, with a few 
spots of blackish-brown. Lower part of the breast and 
belly white, very slightly tinged with rose-red. The 
plumage of the upper parts of the body margined paler 
than that of the male. The rump slightly tinged with 
rose-red. 
» Siskin.—F ringilla spinus, Linn. 
PLATE 55. Figs..6, 7. 
Fringilla spinus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 322. 25.—Faun. Suec. No. 237.—Gmel. 
Syst. 1. p. 914. sp. 25.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. 1. p. 452. sp. 65. 
Ligurinus, Rati, Syn. p. 9. A. 5.—Will. p. 192. t. 46.—Briss. 3. p. 65 
Le Tarin, Buff: Ois. v. 4. p. 221.—Id. Pl. 485. f. 3. male. 
Gros Bec Tarin, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 371. 
Siskin or Aberdevine, Br. Zool. No. 129. eres Zool. 2. p. 243.—Wiil. 
(Ang.) p. 261.— Albin. 3. t. 76.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 2. t. 82.—Lath. Syn. 
3. p. 289. 58.—Mont. Supp. to Ornith. Dict.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, p. t. 
167.—Shaw’s Zool. v. 9. p- 467. t. 69. copy from Bewick. 
Occasional ‘The Siskin is only known in this country as a winter visi- 
visitant. 
Haunts. 
tant, and, as such, but at irregular and sometimes distant pe- 
riods. In the winters of 1820 and 1821, Northumberland 
was visited by considerable flocks of these birds, which, du- 
ring their stay, frequented the margins of rivers, and other 
small streams, where the alder generally grows spontane- 
ously and in abundance, upon the seeds of which tree, 
and that of the birch, they appeared principally to subsist. 
Their partiality for this food brought them into contact with 
the preceding species, with which they often associated du- 
ring their visit. Since that time, I am not aware of any ha- 
