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disappearing from the upper surface, which is consequently more 

 yellow, and the frontal patch is much more distinct. 



The adult female resembles the male, but is not so brightly 

 coloured. Total length 4*5 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2-6, tail 1*8, 

 tarsus 05. 



Young. Differs from the adult in being sandy brown above 

 streaked with blackish, the rump mixed with whitish but not show- 

 ing any yellow ; wing- coverts, quills, and tail-feathers dusky, edged 

 with pale sandy brown ; under surface of body pale sulphur-yellow; 

 the fore neck, breast, and sides of body streaked with black. 



The female appears to be longer in gaining the adult plumage 

 than the male, a specimen collected by Canon Tristram in Palestine 

 having still the sandy-brown plumage of immaturity, though it 

 possesses the yellow rump of the adult. 



Hab. Central and Southern Europe, ranging eastwards to Asia 

 Minor, Palestine, and Egypt ; and northwards to Northern Germany, 

 Denmark, and occasionally the British Islands. 



a, i. cJ $ ad. sk. Valencia, Spain, Feb. 3, 1873 Hume Coll. 

 (H. Saunders). 



c. Ad. sk. Gibraltar, March 6, 1870 (X. Hume Coll. 



H. Irby). 



d. Ad.sk. Tangier (W. H. Drummond Gould Coll. 



Hay). 



e. f. cJ ad. sk. Souza, Tunis, March 8, 1857 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(O. S.). 



ff. Juv. sk. Tunis. L. Fraser [C.]. 



h, dad. sk. Asia Minor. T. Eobson [C.]. 



i. d ad. sk. Asia Minor, Dec. 10 ( T. Rob- Gould Coll. 



son), 



k. cTad.sk. Sidon. Canon Tristram [CI. 



/. J imm. sk. Nahr-el-Kelb, Palestine. Canon Tristram [C.j. 



Subsp. a. Serinus canaria. 



Canary Birds, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. i. pi. 65 (1738). 



Le Serin des Canaries, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 184 (1760) ; Buff. Hist. Nat. 



Ois. iv. p. 1 (1778). 

 Fringilla canaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 321 (1766) ; Webb et Berth. 



Orn. Canar. p. 21, tab. 2 (1836-44) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 83, 



no. 7207 (1870). 

 Canary Finch, Lath, Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 293 (1783). 

 Carduelis canaria, Less. Trait e, p. 443 (1831). 

 Crithagra canaria, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 294 (1837) ; Gray, Gen. 



B. ii. p. 385 (1849) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 124 (1849) ; 



Melliss, Ibis, 1870, p. 101. 

 Serinus canaria, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 163 (1850) ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 523 (1850) ; Bolle, J. f. O. 1858, p. 125, Taf. 1 ; Godman, Azores, 



p. 29 (1870); id. Ibis, 1872, p. 212 ; Dresser, B. Eur. iii. p. 557, 



pi. 172 (1877). 

 Serinus hortulanus {nee Koch), Godman, Lbis, 1866, p. 98. 



Adult mule. General colour above ashy brown, washed with 

 yellow and streaked with blackish brown down the centre of the 



