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SISKIN FINCH. 

 (Fringilla Spinus.) 



Fr. remigibus medio luteis, primis quatuor immaculatis, rectricibus 



basijiavis apice nigris. 

 Finch with the quills yeHow in the middle, the first four without 



spots ; tail-feathers yellow at the base and black at the tip. 

 Fringilla Spinus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 322. 25. — Lin. Faun. Suec* 



237. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 9I4. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 452. 65. 

 Ligurinus. Bris. 3. 65. 4. 



Le Tarin. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 221.— Buff. PI. Enl. 485. 

 f.3. 



Siskin, or Aberdevine. Penn. Brit. Zool. 12Q. 53. — Penn. 

 Arct. Zool. 2. 243. — Albin. Birds. 3. 76. — Mont. Sup. — Lewin. 

 Brit. Birds. 2. 82. —Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 289. 58. — Lath. Syn. 

 Sup. 166.— Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 167. 



The Aberdevine, or Siskin, is about four inches 

 and a half in length : beak whitish, tipped with 

 black : irides dusky : top of the head black : hind 

 head and all the upper parts of the body yellowish 

 green, mostly yellow on the rump, the feathers 

 streaked with dusky down the middle : sides of 

 the head, chin, throat, and breast, greenish yel- 

 low, not spotted : middle of the belly whitish : 

 sides tinged with yellow, and marked with large 

 dusky streaks: under tail-coverts the same: lesser 

 wing-coverts similar to the back : the series im- 

 mediately impending the greater coverts chiefly 

 yellow: the greater coverts black tipped with 

 yellow; forming two yellow bands across the 

 wing, divided by one of black : quills dusky, the 



