See also:

• SISKIN (Dan. sidsken, Ger. Zeisig and Zeising)

SISKIN (See also:

• DAN

Dan. sidsken, Ger. Zeisig and Zeising)  , See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long known in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England as a cage-See also:

• BIRD

bird called by dealers the Aberdevine or Abadavine, names of unknown origin, the Fringilla spinus of See also:

• LINNAEUS

Linnaeus, and Carduelis spinus of See also:

• MODERN

modern writers, belongs to the Passerine See also:

• FAMILY

family Fringillidae . In some of its structural characters it is most nearly allied to the See also:

• GOLDFINCH (Ger. Gold fink')

goldfinch (q.v.), and both are placed in the same genus by systematists; but in its See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style of coloration, and still more in its habits; it resembles the redpolls (cf . See also:

• LINNET, O

LINNET), though without their slender figure, being indeed rather See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short and stout of build . Yet it hardly yields to them in activity or in the See also:

• GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
• GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )

grace of its actions, as it seeks its See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food from the catkins of the See also:

• ALDER

alder or See also:

• BIRCH
• BIRCH (Betula)
• BIRCH, SAMUEL (1813–1885)
• BIRCH, THOMAS (1705-1766)

birch, regardless of the attitude it assumes while so doing . Of an See also:

• OLIVE (Olea europaea)

olive-See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

green above, deeply tinted in some parts with See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black and in others lightened by yellow, and beneath of a yellowish-See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white again marked with black, the male of this See also:

• SPECIES

species has at least a becoming if not a brilliant garb, and possesses a See also:

• SONG

song that is not unmelodious, though the resemblance of some of its notes to the See also:

• RUNNING

running-down of a piece of clockwork is more remarkable than pleasing . The See also:

• HEN

hen is still more soberly attired; but it is perhaps the See also:

• SISKIN (Dan. sidsken, Ger. Zeisig and Zeising)

siskin's disposition to familiarity that makes it so favourite a See also:

• CAPTIVE (from Lat. capere, to take)

captive, and, 'though as a cage-bird it is not ordinarily long-lived, it readily adapts itself to the loss of See also:

• LIBERTY (Lat. libertas, from liber, free)

liberty . Moreover, if anything like the needful See also:

• ACCOMMODATION (Lat. accommodare, to make fit, from ad, to, cum, with, and modus, measure)

accommodation be afforded, it will build a See also:

• NEST

nest and therein See also:

• LAY

lay its eggs; but it rarely succeeds in bringing up its See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young in confinement . As a See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild bird it breeds constantly, though locally, throughout the greater See also:

• PART

part of See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland, and has frequently done so in England, but more rarely in See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland . The greater portion, however, of the numerous bands which visit the See also:

• BRITISH

British Islands in autumn and See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter doubtless come from the See also:

• CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

Continent—perhaps even from far to the 'eastward, since its range stretches across See also:

• ASIA

Asia to See also:

• JAPAN

Japan, in which See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country it is as favourite a cage-bird as with us . The nest of the siskin is very like that of the goldfinch, but seldom so neatly built; the eggs, except in their smaller See also:

• SIZE

size, much resemble those of the See also:

• GREENFINCH (Ger. Griinfink), or GREEN LINNET

greenfinch (q.v.) . A larger and more brightly coloured species, C. spinoides, inhabits the Himalayas, but the siskin has many other relatives belonging to the New See also:

• WORLD

World, and in them serious modifications of structure, especially in the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the See also:

• BILL

bill, occur . Some of these relatives See also:

• LEAD
• LEAD (pronounced iced)

lead almost insensibly to the greenfinch (ut supra) and its See also:

• ALLIES, THOMAS WILLIAM (1813-1903)

allies, others to the goldfinch (ut supra), the redpolls and so on .

Thus the siskin perhaps may be regarded as one of the less modified descendants of a stock whence such forms as those just mentioned have sprung . Its striated plumage also favours this view, as an See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence of permanent immaturity or generalization of form, since striped feathers are so often the earliest clothing of many of these birds, which only get rid of them at their first See also:

• MOULT

moult . On this theory the yellowbird or See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North-See also:

• AMERICAN

American " goldfinch," C. tristis, would seem, with its immediate allies, to See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank among the highest forms of the See also:

• GROUP

group, and the See also:

• PINE (Lat. Pinus, Gr. srlrur)

pine-goldfinch, C. pinus, of the same country, to be one of the lowest— the See also:

• COCK, EDWARD (1805-1892)

cock of the former being generally of a See also:

• BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-188g)
• BRIGHT, SIR CHARLES TILSTON

bright yellow See also:

• HUE

hue, with black See also:

• CROWN

crown, tail and wings—the last conspicuously barred with white, while neither hens nor young exhibit any striations . On the other See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, neither See also:

• SEX (Lat. sexes; possibly connected with secure, to cut)

sex of the latter at any See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age puts off its striped garb—the See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

mark, it may be See also:

• PRETTY

pretty safely asserted, of an inferior See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage of development . The remaining species of the group, mostly See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South-American, do not seem here to need particular See also:

• NOTICE

notice . (A .