GOLDFINCH—SISKIN. 
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F AM I L Y — Fring illidce. 
S U '^-YAM.ll.Y'—FrmgillincB. 
Genus — Carduelis. 
66. Cardtielis elegans. Goldfinch. 
A resident in all parts. 
The number of this species is greatly increased in the 
autumn, throughout the county and the Isle of Wight, by 
migrants, and it is from these chiefly that bird-catchers 
take the heaviest toll. The quantity of birds nesting does 
not seem either to increase or decrease much, and from 
the fact that they nest late, and often in the high branches 
of thickly-foliaged trees, they do not appear to be so 
plentiful during the summer as they really are. 
Genu S — Chrysomitris. 
67. Chrysomitris spinus. Siskin. 
A winter visitor ; never occurring in any numbers. 
Has been recorded from Overton, Alton, Avington, 
Hamble, Fareham, Portsmouth, Langrish, Wolmer Forest, 
Christchurch, the New Forest, and the Isle of Wight. 
Mr. Hart says that many are caught on the New 
Forest coast in autumn. 
