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species. I propose trying this experiment. The nest of the Cape 

 canary is generally constracted in a low thick bush, and is of a cup- 

 shape, formed of hair, moss, and feathers. The eggs, three to four in 

 number, are white, streaked and spotted at the obtuse end with 

 purplish-brown : axis, 9'"; diam., 6|"'. 



400. Fringilla Capensis; CUrinella Capensis' 



Less ; Sup. Aux. (Euv. de Buf., Vol. XX., p. 335. 



Head, olive- green ; back and wing-covers, reddish-brown ; 

 rump yellowish-green ; and greenish-yellow on the chin, 

 throat, chest, and belly ; the lesser coverts are grey ; wing- 

 feathers black, each feather terminated by an oblong white 

 spot ; tail-feathers black, with a white border at the tip, the 

 border wider on the lateral feathers, beneath lighter ; bill 

 and legs reddish. 



Quoted by Lesson as from the Cape of Good Hope. I cannot 

 identify it ; but sometimes fancy it may be our " Pietje Canarie,'' the 

 next species. 



401. Fringilla Totta ; CUrinella Totta, Bp. ; 

 Loxia Totta, Gmel. ; Pietje Canarie of Dutch Colonists. 



Head, greenish-brown ; rump, yellowish-green, mottled with 

 brown ; eyebrows yellow ; under parts, greenish-yellow, the 

 yellow predominating on the chin and down the centre of 

 the belly; wing and tail feathers blackish-brown, tipped with 

 white ; tail-coverts grey. Length, 5" 3'" ; wing, 2" 9'" ; 

 tail, 2" 2"'. 



This canary is found in similar situations to the Cape canary. It is 

 said that the cock will breed with the hen yellow-canary in captivity ; 

 but that the hen pietje-canary will not breed with the male of the 

 yellow species. This may be from an unwillingness of the wild hen to 

 build in a cage. 



402. Fringilla Gularis; Linaria Gularis, Sm., 

 Append, to Kept, of Exped., p. 49. 



Top of head, dark-brown, feathers edged with white ; eye- 

 brows white ; neck and upper parts, grey-brown, clouded with 

 darker tints ; chin, pure white ; breast, pale grey- brown ; 

 belly tawn> -white, darkest on the sides ; quills and tail 

 brown, the feathers edged with greenish- white. Length, 5" 6'". 



Inhabits the colony, and country as far as Latakoo. Eare. — Dr. 

 Smith, loc. cit. 



M. Victorin procured this species at the Knysna. See J. W. Grill. 

 Zool. Antic. Af.— Victorin. 



