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The ITjlcry of the 
SISKIN, or ABERBUV1NE A 
(Fringilla Spinus. Linn.) 
O F all granivorous birds the Gold-Finch is 
fuppofed to be the mod: nearly allied to 
the Sifkin ; both have the bill elongated and 
flender toward the point; the manners of both 
are gentle ; they are of a docile diSpodtiom, and 
their motions are bride and lively. Some Na- 
turalids, druck with thefe marks Gf refen> 
blance, and the great analogy which fubfifts 
between thefe birds in other refpedls, (for they 
pair and produce fertile offspring,) have confi- 
dered them as tw r o proximate fpecies of the 
fame genus. 
The Silkin is Smaller than the Goldfinch ; 
his bill is Shorter in proportion, and his plu- 
mage quite different *, he has black on his head, 
but no red ; his throat is brown ; the fore-part 
of the neck, the bread:, and outward feathers 
of the tail are yellow, the belly white, with a 
yellow tinge ; the upper part of the body of an 
olive green, Spotted with black, which becomes 
* Alfo from the Natural Hiller y of the Comte de JBuffon, 
