While the observer is ogling, it may be an over-modest Townsend Sparrow, a flock of Pine Siskins will charge incontinently into the alders above his very head.
Whatever be the time of year, Siskins roam about in happy, rollicking bands, comprising from a score to several hundred individuals.
In France, Siskins are most numerous from the middle of October to the beginning of December.
Siskins are more frequently met with in the northern than the southern counties of England, but they are common in neither, and will only nest where pine woods abound.
As he held it in his hand, I raised my finger towards it as if about to touch its beak.
If exposed to the rays of the sun, the metallic green of its upper plumage is still most conspicuous; if in the shade, or surrounded by leaves, its chestnut red breast betrays its position.
Its powers of calculating seem to be of a very low order.
The winter home of the Roller is Africa, and it is said to be particularly abundant in Algeria.
A portion of one which I have in my possession, and which was taken about twenty years since from a deep hole in an embankment at Deepdale, Norfolk, consists exclusively of small fish-bones and scraps of the shells of shrimps.
The robins and siskins make some of their most thrilling plunges over such cliffs as are shown in the picture.
Illustration] The reader will perhaps recall that a flock of pine siskins were seen, two years prior, in a patch of pine scrub a short distance below Leadville, at which time I was uncertain as to their identity.
The siskins seen at Georgetown moved about in good-sized flocks, feeding awhile on weed-seeds on the sunny slopes, and then wheeling with a merry chirp up to the pine-clad sides of the mountains.
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