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2. Petronia. P. petronella. Yellow-throated 



Rock Sparrow. 



3. CritJiagra. C. butyracea. St. Helena Seed- 



Eater. 



C. sidpJmrata. Sulphury Seed-Eater. 



C. chrysopyga. Yellow-rumped Seed- 

 Eater, 



C. uiusica. Singing Finch. 



C. albogidaris. White-throated Seed 

 Eater. 



4. Sej'inus. S. canicollis. AVikl Canary. 



5. Fringil- 



laria. F. capensis. Cape Bunting. 



Grey-Headed Sparrow. — This bird is also known by 

 the name of Swainson's finch. Its head and neck are 

 greyish brown ; shoulders and back chestnut brown ; wings 

 and rump red brown, with darker undulations ; lower parts 

 greyish white ; under tail coverts pure white. About the 

 size of an ordinary English sparrow. 



The female is paler, but otherwise like the male. 



Alario Finch. — As this bird has frequently bred mules 

 with the canary, it is clearly not a sparrow, and should not 

 be called one, as it often is. Head, throat, and upper breast 

 black ; back, wing coverts, and tail brown ; neck, and sides 

 of breast white ; under parts brownish white ; eyes black ; 

 bill horn grey. Size that of a siskin. 



The female has no black, but is brownish, with a yellow 

 tinge. 



Food same as a canary, which the alario much resembles 

 in its habits ; it sings prettily, and soon becomes reconciled 

 to confinement. 



Black-Breasted Sparrow. — Brown above, and greyish 

 white below, except the throat and upper part of the 



