Class II. 



SISKIN FINCH. 



459 



These birds are very common in Lincolnshire; 

 are conversant among trees, and collect like the 

 common kind in great flocks. 



They winter in Italy. 



" The nest of this species is made in trees. 

 The eggs, five in number, are pale brown with 

 chocolate spots running together, and forming 

 a cloud at the larger end. It is found in North 

 America in great plenty," J. L. 



Fringilla Spinus. Fr. remigi- 

 bus medio luteisj primis qua- 

 tuor immaculatis, rectrici- 

 bus basi flavis apice nigris. 

 Lath. Ind. orn. 452. id. 

 Syn. iii. 28Q. id. Sup. \. 166. 



Belon av. 354. 



Acantbis, Spinus, Ligurinus 

 Gesner av. I. 



Aldr. av. ii. 352. 



Lucarino. Olina, 17. 



Wil. orn. 26l. 



Raii Syn. av. §1 . 



Le Serin. Brissonav.ul.65. 6. Siskin - . 

 Le Tarin. Hist, d'ois. iv. 221. 



PI. Enl. 485. f. 3. 

 Fringilla Spinus. Gm. Lin. 



914. 

 Siska, Gronsiska: Faun. Suec. 



sp. 237. 

 Sisgen. Brunnich, 26l. 

 Zeisel, Zeiserl. Kram. 366. 



Frisch, i. 2. Scopoli, No, 



212. 

 Br. Zool. log. plate V. Arct. 



Z00L ii. 74. 



_L HE head of the male is black ; the neck and Descrip- 

 back green; but the shafts on the latter are 

 black; the rump is of a greenish yellow; the 

 throat and breast the same; the belly white; 

 the vent-feathers yellowish, marked with oblong 

 dusky spots in the middle; the pinion quil feather 



