BRITISH BIRDS. 
167 
THE SISKIN. 
ABERDEVINE. 
,( FringiUa Spin us y Lin . — Le Tarin y Buff.) 
Length near five inches : Bill white ; eyes 
black ; top of the head and throat black ; over 
each eye there is a pale yellow ftreak; back of 
the neck and back yellowifh olive, faintly mar- 
ked with dufky ftreaks down the middle of each 
feather ; rump yellow ; under parts greenifh yel- 
low, paleft on the breaft ; thighs grey, marked 
with dulky ftreaks ; greater wing coverts of a pale 
yellowifh green, and tipped with black ; quills duf- 
ky, faintly edged with yellow — the outer web of 
each at the bafe is of a fine pale yellow, forming, 
when the wing is clofed, an irregular bar of that 
colour acrofs the wing ; the tail is forked, the mid*? 
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