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By Alexander Wetmore
The Old World siskin (Spinus spinus) is another species that usually becomes very tame
when caged. The adult male is marked with
bright yellow, with black on the head (Color
Plate III), but females and immature males
are soberly clad in streaked plumage like the
pine siskin of America.
The European siskin nests in the north
where there are spruces and other cone-bearing
trees, ranging into Norway and the Archangel
district in Russia and across Asia to Japan.
In the Pyrenees, Bulgaria, and the Caucasus it
is found locally. In winter it wanders in flocks
wherever food is abundant.
As the song is merely a twittering warble, the
bird is sought more for its friendly acceptance
of captivity than for its notes.
Originally appeared in the December 1938 issue of the National Geographic Magazine
This Web version COPYRIGHT 2004
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