SOS aS KT NT ae 
beneath each ear: the breaft and belly of a dirty 
white. Juft above the ereater coverts is a row of — 
feathers black edged with white; the oreater co- 
verts are black edged with ruft color: quil-fea- 
thers dufky, edged with pale red: lower part of 
the back of an olive brown: tail brown: legs 
ftraw color. a ie yh. . 
Thefe birds are very common in Lincolufhire ; 
are converfant amone trees, and collect like the 
129. SISKiN. 
DESCRIP. 
common kind in great flocks. 
3 
Belon av. 354. 
Acanthis, {pinus, ligurinus. 
Gefner av. I. 
Aldr. av. VW. 352. 
Lucarino. Ofize, 17. 
Wil. orn. 261. 
Raii fyn. av. Ql. 
Le Serin. 
65. 
Brifin av, Ul. 
Fringilla fpinus. Lin. fpf. 
9225 
Sifka, Gronfifka. Faun. Suec. 
_ SP» 237- a 
Sifgen. Brunxich, 261. 
Zeilel, Zeiferl. Kram. 366. 
Frifch, I. 2. Scopok, No. 
212. 
Br. Zool. 109. plate V. 
‘HE head of the male is black: the neck. 
and back green; but the fhafts on the lat- 
ter are black: the rump is of a greenifh yellow: 
the throat and breaft the fame: the belly white: 
_ the vent-feathers yellowifh, marked with oblong 
dufky fpots in their middle: the pinion quil is 
dufky edged with green: the outward webs of the 
nine next quil-feathers are green; the green part is 
widened by degrees in every feather, till in the laft 
st takes up half the length: from the tenth almoft 
the 
