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Definition of Pine siskin
1. Noun. Small finch of North American coniferous forests.
Generic synonyms: Finch
Group relationships: Genus Spinus, Spinus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pine Siskin
Literary usage of Pine siskin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1917)
"Spinus pinus pine siskin.— On April 13, 1915, in the early morning, while walking
up the ravine of a small creek which flows into the Don River, ..."
2. Stories from Birdland by Annie Chase (1896)
"THE pine siskin. There is a bird making a nest in the pine tree this first day
of October. It is the pine siskin. He will stay all winter. Hark! ..."
3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1922)
"Consulting Goss's ''History of the Birds of Kansas," I soon came to the conclusion
that the bird must be the pine siskin. But Goss in his book says: "Winter ..."
4. The Birds of Ohio: A Complete Scientific and Popular Description of the 320 by William Leon Dawson, Lynds Jones (1903)
"pine siskin. AOU No. 533. Spinus pinus (Wils.). Synonyms. ... THE pine siskin is
one of those happy-go-lucky mortals (he is mortal, is he not? ..."
5. Western Birds by Harriet Williams Myers (1922)
"pine siskin: Spinus pinus. FAMILY—FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. ANOTHER small member
of the Finch Family is the pine siskin, a bird which in many ways resembles ..."
6. Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music: A Description of the Character and by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1921)
"pine siskin The pine siskin or Pine Finch is a boreal L^ln* h"s" species which
... The call note of the pine siskin is identical with that of the Goldfinch ..."
7. Guide to the Systematic Use of the North American Bird and Nature Study: A by Harold Brough Shinn, Gerard Alan Abbott (1912)
"pine siskin. Spinna pinus. 5 in. The pine siskin, or Pine Finch, is with us merely
as a winter visitant. It occurs throughout the continent, breeding mostly ..."
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