70 Dr. Heineken on Fringilla Canaria, ^c. 



The tint in the female is less brilliant. Underneath, both pairs have a 

 saturated sulphureous-orange colour, which assumes an obscure vermil- 

 lion tint in the medial and basal areas of the forewings. In the female, 

 the surface is variegated by the transmission of the marks of the upper 

 side, and by grayish irrorations towards the margins. The thorax in both 

 sexes is clothed above with a greenish, and underneath with a yellowish 

 down : the body is blackish above, and gray underneath. 



Art. XVII. Observations on the Fringilla Canaria, Syl- 

 via Atricapilla, and other Birds of Madeira. By C. Hti- 



NEKEN, M.D., 8fC. 



Happening to meet with " Starke's Elements of Natural History" a 

 short time ago, I observed that his specific character of the Fringilla 

 Canaria was, word for word, the erroneous* one of the 12th Edition of 

 Linneeus's Systema Naturee ; and, as I suppose, from Mr. Starke's work 

 being very recent, and professedly a compilation, that the best authorities 

 are had recourse to, I conclude that a more accurate description is not 

 to be met with, and therefore offer the following : — 



Fringilla, (Illig.) Sect. 1. Laticones, (Temm.) 

 Fring. Canaria, -v 



Fring. hutyracea, (Linn.) J 

 Adult male. — Irides dark brown. Upper mandible fuscous, sides and 

 tip darker ; lower livid flesh-colour. Legs brownish flesh-colour. Front, 

 brows, line below the eyes, chin, throat, (extending backwards and 

 forming an indistinct, imperfect collar with the slight shade on the nit- 

 cha,j breast, rump, and lesser wing-coverts greenish-yellow : scapulars, 

 and larger coverts deeply shaded with the same : nucha and back (a tinge 



* I say " erroneous," because never having heard a doubt about our bird 

 being the true Fring. Canaria, I assume that it is so, and consequently that 

 " F. rostro corporeque albo-flavicante, rectricibus reniigibusque virescentibus, 

 <' rostro albido," (Linn. \2th Ed. Vol. I. p. 321.) can only apply to one of its 

 numerous varieties. 



