82 PINCH. 



Inhabits Sierra Leona. — Mr. Brogden. This resembles, in many 

 things, the Minute Grosbeak, but it is a larger bird ; the bill that of 

 a Finch, and without any white on the quills. 



45— SISKIN. 



Fringilla Spinus, Lid. Orn. i. 452. Lin. i. 322. Faun. Suec. No. 237. Gm. Lin. i. 



914. Scop. i. No. 212. Brun. No. 261, 262. Midler, No. 259. Kramer, 366. 



Frisch, t. 11. Georgi, p. 174. Sepp, Vog. t. p. 135. Klein, 94. Id. Stem. 20. 



t. 18. f. 4. a — c. Borowsk. iii. 142. Faun. Helvet. Gerin. iv. t. 361, 2. Shaw's 



Zool. ix. 467. pi. 69. Tern. Man. a"Orn. 225. Id. Ed. ii. 372. 

 Ligurinus, Raii, 9. A. 5. Will. 192. t. 46. Bris. iii. 65. Id. 8vo. i. 325. Roman. 



Orn. p. 118. t. 18. f. 2. 

 Le Tarin, Buf. iv. 221. PI. enl. 485. 3. Hist. Prov. i. 513. Robert. Ic. pi. 3. 

 Der Zeisig, Naturf. xvii. 95. Schmid, Vog. p. 80. t. 67. 

 Zeislein, Gunth. Nest. u. Eij. 56. t. 13. — lower fig. Naturf. xiii. s. 187. 

 Lucarino, Olin. Uc. t. p. 17. Cet. Uc. Sard. 211. 

 Siskin, or Aberdevine, Gen. Si/n. iii. 289. Id. Sup. 166. Br. Zool. No. 129. pi. 53. 



Id. 1812. i. p. 459. pi. 60. Id.fol. 109. t. V. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 243. Id. p. 



383. 1. Albin, iii. pi. 76. Id. Song Birds, pi. p. 83. Collins, Birds, pi. 8. f. 5. 



6. Bewick, Birds, i. pi. in p. 167. Lewin, Birds, ii. pi. 82. Bolt. Birds, i. 



pi. 26, 26. Walcot, Birds, pi. 220. Orn. Diet. Supp. 



LENGTH four inches and three quarters. Bill white, with a 

 black tip; top of the head black; hindhead and all the upper parts 

 yellowish olive, with a dusky dash down the middle of each feather; 

 rump yellowish ; the under parts of the body greyish yellow; belly 

 whitish ; under tail coverts streaked with dusky; thighs grey ; lesser 

 wing coverts olive; the middle ones blackish, tipped with olive; 

 greater ones the same ; hence are formed two olive-green bands ; the 

 three first quills are blackish, with the inner edges brimstone-colour; 

 the outer edge of the second and third yellow green ; the others half 

 blackish, half yellow, edged with greenish, and tipped with grey ; 

 the tail a little forked ; the two middle feathers blackish, edged with 

 olive ; the others yellow, with the tips black, and the edges grey ; 

 the legs grey. 



