BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



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Canary, 



The Canary {Seri?tjes Jiortulanus canai'ius^ Linnaeus) is an 

 accidental spring and autumn visitor to the British Islands, 

 and a resident in the Canary Islands, jNIadeira, and 

 the Azores. The adult male wild canary has, it is 

 said, "the crown, yellowish-green, narrowly streaked with 

 blackish-brown ; back, and upper tail-coverts, blackish- 

 brown, margined broadly with grey, and marked with olive- 

 green ; forehead and rump, bright yellowish-green ; wing- 

 coverts, blackish-brown, tipped and margined with olive- 

 grt-cn. The whole of the under parts are golden yellow, 

 shading into almost white on the under tail-coverts ; the 

 flanks arc striped with blackish-brown ; bill, light brown ; 

 legs, feet, and claws, fleshy brown ; irides, hazel." The 

 adult female is described as being duller in colour, and 

 shows less yellow. 



