and the Canary; so far the species has not been bred in the 

 United Kingdom, and is very uncommon in this country. 



Habitat: Venezuela and Trinidad, also Cuba, and Porto 

 Rico by introduction. 



Adult male: The general body colour is fiery orange- 

 vermilion of varying intensity ; quills and tail-feathers black, 

 slightly tinted with reddish ; practically the whole of the head is 

 deep black; beak greyish-horn colour; legs and feet reddish- 

 grey. Total length 4 inches, tail 1 inch. 



Adult female : General body colour greyish-brown ; wings 

 black, with three patches of orange vermilion crossing same and 

 secondaries tipped with white ; sides of breast, rump, upper and 

 under tail-coverts orange vermilion ; beak greyish-brown ; legs 

 and feet reddish- grey. 



I have seen more than one specimen at the Zoo more fiery 

 in hue than the figure depicted on plate. 



Mr. H. D. Astley found mules between this species and 

 the Canary rather numerous and had one in his possession for a 

 time. In Vol. VIII., Avicultural Magazine, he describes it as 

 follows : 



" The hybrid takes very much after the Canary (wild) than after the 

 " ' Cardenal.'*' It is the shape and size of the former, with its song almost 

 " reproduced. In colour, it is just as if you took a Wild Canary and dipped 

 " it into a dye-pot of saffron-orange. The green-yellow of the Canary tem- 

 " pers the orange, and tones it down ; and a very pretty bird is the con- 

 " sequence. He has a suspicion of a darker head than a Canary, but nothing 

 " so marked as his fathers! The Wild Canary is the commonest bird in 

 " this island ; and its song about makes one think one is perpetually passing 

 " by some out-door aviaries ! You see them in large flocks like one sees 

 " Linnets in England." 



I have not up to the present had the opportunity of pro- 

 curing this species, but hope to do so at any early date. I have, 

 however, made a close study of them and also C. colovibiana, 

 and am of the opinion that this species would mate rather readily 

 with an}' small variety of the domesticated Canary, and very 

 pleasing hybrids would be the result. At any rate if any one 

 became possessed of an odd bird of either sex, the experiment 

 would be worth the trial. Given a roomy cage, or summer 



I'lie name by which the Hooded Finch is conmionlv known in Teneriffe. 



