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SERIN I'INCII. 
1859, shortly after a severe storm. ]\Ir. Rowley also 
(“Ibis,” January, 1861,) alludes to other specimens 
having been taken near Brighton. 
Tho Serin Finch is generally a migratory bird, 
quitting its summer and breeding ground in October, 
and returning the following March; but in the mild 
climate of the Rhine, Naumann tells us it remains all 
the year round. 
It lives most frequently in fruit-gardens, orchards, 
or avenues of wallnut or nut-trees, and vineyards; 
more rarely in oak and beech woods, and loves to 
dwell among willows and alders, on the banks of brooks 
and rivers, as well as in garden-trees in the middle 
of villages or near buildings. Naumann, from whom 
I am now quoting, further remarks that wherever it 
lives in summer, it makes itself known by its restless 
habits, and its custom of always singing on the sum- 
mit of the tree tops, from which it often flies down 
to the roofs of buildings. In autumn it is more retired, 
but remains long on the thick tree tops. 
It seeks its food principally on the ground, on 
which account it is often seen there, but never very 
far from trees and bushes, and still less in the open 
fields. It does not seem to like fir or pine woods. 
In its movements it is very lively and active, springing 
from branch to branch, very much like the Siskin or 
Common Linnet, and it willingly associates with these 
birds, particularly the Siskin. They arc generally seen 
in pairs or small flocks, and the pairs do not seem to 
separate during the whole year, but “cling to each 
other with the utmost affection and tenderness.” If 
one is accidentally separated from the other, they call 
assiduously until they are again united. 
The male is very lively in the beautiful spring 
