. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland . , she gave up in despair. No other nest was built. I do not doubt that if a Hartz cage had been hanging on the wall, the Serinwould have built inside it, and reared her brood: the common Canary in anaviary prefers this to anything else, and when it is not present, builds iu a bushor a bundle of twigs. Ornithologists have long differed in opinion as to whether the specimens ofthe wild Canary which have from time to time been caught and killed on ourcoasts are stragglers to Great Britain or escaped cage-birds; Seebohm insistedthat they were the former, beca
. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland . , she gave up in despair. No other nest was built. I do not doubt that if a Hartz cage had been hanging on the wall, the Serinwould have built inside it, and reared her brood: the common Canary in anaviary prefers this to anything else, and when it is not present, builds iu a bushor a bundle of twigs. Ornithologists have long differed in opinion as to whether the specimens ofthe wild Canary which have from time to time been caught and killed on ourcoasts are stragglers to Great Britain or escaped cage-birds; Seebohm insistedthat they were the former, because they showed no evidence of having been incaptivity, although the same might be said of most birds which have been care-fully attended to in spacious aviaries. Howard Saunders did not hesitate to regardthem as freed captives, observing that although cages-full are known to beimported, there are persons who wish to believe that the individuals captured arenot escaped birds, but stragglers from a warm to an inhospitable climate. Here. -7^ ■7 I / Si^-- The Siskin 65 again, the same might be said of other species with equal fairness, yet I thinkhe may have been correct. Familv---FRINGILLID. E. Subfawtly—FRINGILLIAVE. The Siskin. Clitysomitris spinas., LiNN. THE distribution of the Siskin or Aberdevine* extends throughout Europe tothe limit of conifer growth : in Africa it is said to occur during severewinters in Morocco and Algeria; it is also found in Northern Asia, andacross Siberia to China and Japan. In Great Britain during the summer months the vSiskin is chiefly confined tothe fir-woods of the north, consequently it is somewhat local in its distribution;in some parts of Scotland and Ireland it is fairly abundant as a breeding species,as also in some of the northern counties of England: it has, moreover, beenknown occasionally to breed in Surrej^ Sussex, and I am tolerably sure that ithas bred at Keston, in Kent, near to the lakes, where there is a belt of tallconifers,
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