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a yellow band on the wing. Two birds of the moun- 

 tains of the South of Europe, nearly the size of the 

 Siskin. 



Canary Finch, {Fring. Canaria. Lin.) Enl. 

 202. 1. 



Is larger, and its facility of propagation in captivity, 

 as well as the charms of its song, have extended it 

 every where, and caused it so to vary in colour, that 

 it is difficult to assign its primitive hue. It mixes 

 with the majority of the other species of this genus, 

 and often produces with them mules, more or less 

 fruitful. 



Among the foreign birds, which cannot be distin- 

 guished from the linnets by any generic character, we 

 place 



Lepid Finch. Lath. Fring'dla lepida. Gm. 



Bill and eyes, black ; general colour of the plumage, 

 greenish brown ; chin, fulvous ; breast, black. Havan- 

 nah. 



American Yellow Finch. Fring. tristis. Enl. 202. 2. 



Fore part of the head, black ; rest of the body, yellow ; 

 wing-coverts, black, crossed with a white band. North 

 America. 



Mozambique Serin. Fringilla ictera. Vieil. Enl. 

 364. 1. 2. Fringilla canaria. Var. Lath. 



Larger than canary ; beneath, yellovv ; and on croup, 

 upper wing, and tail coverts, bordered with yellowish ; 



