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ance ; top and sides of head, and chin, pink ; tail-feathers 

 brown, all, with the exception of the two centre ones, tipped 

 with white. The female resembles the male, but wants the 

 crimson head. Length, 5" 6'" ; wing, 3" ; tail, 2" 3'". 



Dr. A. Smith found this species only in the neighbourhood of 

 Latakoo, feeding in the native gardens, and congregated together in 

 considerable numbers. I have received it from ELuruman and 

 Damaraland. 



398. Amadina Nitens. (Linn.) PL EnL 291, f. 



1,2; Hypochera Ultramarina ; Frin. Ultramarina, 

 Gmel.; YieiL, Ois. Chant., t. 21 ; F. Funerea, De Turr. ; 

 Edw. Birds, pi. 362, f. 1. 



SHINING blueish- black ; wings and tail rather fuscous, with 

 pale edges; under wing white; bill red. Length, 4" 6'"; 

 wing, 2" 4'" ; tail, 1" 2'". 

 Natal, &c. Hartl., Orn. W. Af., p. 149. (Ibis Vol. 2, p. 205, &c.) 



Genus FRINGILLA, Linn. 



Bill short, conical, and broad at the base, with the culm en 

 rounded, sloping, and the sides compressed to the tip, which 

 is acute and entire, the lateral margins straight ; the gonys 

 long and ascending ; the nostrils basal, lateral, and sunk in a 

 small groove, with the opening generally concealed by the 

 projecting small plumes ; wings mostly long and pointed, 

 with the second and third quills equal, and rather longer 

 than the first ; tail more or less long, and generally slightly 

 forked at the end ; tarsi shorter than the middle toe, and 

 covered in front with broad scales ; toes moderate and slender, 

 the lateral toes nearly equal, the outer toe united at its base, 

 the hind toe long, and armed with a long curved claw. 



399. Fringilla Oanicollis ; Serinus 



Sw. ; Gape Canary. 



FOREHEAD, back, and under parts, greenish-yellow, mottled 

 with brown on the two first ; nuchal collar and flanks grey ; 

 vent albescent ; wings and tail dark-brown ; the outer webs 

 narrowly margined with yellow ; the inner webs of the latter 

 broadly margined with brown-yellow. Length, 5" 3'" : wing. 

 3"' ; tail, 2" 2"'. 



The Cape canary is a common bird throughout the colony, congre- 

 gating in flocks on the open and ploughed lands, and feeding on grains 

 and seeds of all kinds. It sings very sweetly, and breeds in captivity 

 with the tame canary, the mule bird being very handsome and, I am 

 told, again producing with either the yellow bird or one of its own 



