The Aberdevine and Nest. 
Aberdevine 
{JJavduelis spinus, 
Cuvier.) 
* Be/on, Oyseaux, p. 354. — Gesner, Aves, 1. — Aldrovand, Aves, 1. p. 352. — Fringilla 
spinus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 322. 25. — Faun. Suec. No. 237. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 
914. sp. 25. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 452. sp. 65. — Scopoli, 1. No. 212. — Brumi. 
pp. 261, 262. — Muller, p. 256.— Aramer, p.366. — Frisch. 1. 11. Georgi. p. 174. — 
Klein, 94. et Stem. 20. p. 18. 4. — Borowskp, 3. p. 142. — Faun. Helv. Gerin. 4. 
p. 361. 2. — Ligurinus, llaii, Syn. p. 9. A. 5. — Will. p. 192. t. 46. — Bris. 3. 
p. 65. Roman Orn. — Le Tarin, Buf. Ois. 5. p. 221. — Ib. pi. 485. f. 3. 
male. — Sepp. Vogelen, t. p. 138. — Gros Bee Tarin, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 1. 
p. 371. — Gerard, 2. p, 109. — Roberts, Bouget, p. 227. Lucarino, Olina, Uccel. p. 
17. — Cetti, Uccel. Sardin, p. 214. — Siskin or Aberdevine, Br. Zool. No. 129. — 
Arct. Zool. 2. p. 243. — Will, by Ray, p. 261. — Albin. 3. t. 76. — Song Birds, p. 83. 
— Lewiids Br. Birds, 2. t. 82. — Lath. Syn. 3. p. 289. 58. — Mont. Supp. to Orn. 
Diet. — Bewick’s Br. Birds, p. t. 167. — Shaw's Zool. 9. p. 167. t. 79. copy from 
Bewick. — Bolton, Harm. Rur. p. 26. — Syme, p. 177. — Flem. Br. Anim. p. 85. 
--Charlotte Smith’s Hist, of Birds, 2. p. 63. — Jennings^ Orn. p. 233. — Collins, 
Birds, pi. 8. f. 8. 6.— Wale. Birds, pi. 220.— Lath. Gen. Hist. 6. p. 82. 
Markham, Linn. Trans. 1. p. 120. 
The Aberdevine nearly resembles the canary termed the green 
variety, only it is a little less, the tail being- rather shorter in pro- 
* The matter not contained in the first edition of Montagu’s Dictionarjr, will be distinguished 
by an asterisk at beginning and end. 
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