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Le Tarrain de la Chine, Son. Voy. Ind. vol. ii. p. 202. Guirmeen 
SISKIN. 
LE SS. than the Sparrow. Bill black: the head is black; Descairrione. 
hind part of the neck, and back, olive green: the fore part, 
belly,.and vent, yellow: wing coverts the fame; the leffer croffed 
with two black bands, the larger tipped with a fpot of black.: 
the quills are black, but the greater ones are yellow half- 
way from the bafe: tail half black half yellow, like the quills: 
Jegs black. 
Inhabits China. BOGE 
Fringilla Canaria, Lin. Sy. i. p. 321. 23. —Olia. uc. pl. in p. 7. — Fri 62. 
‘ pl. 12. feveral Lee et ‘ : eh OG + CANARY F.. 
Le Serin des Canaries, Brif. ora. iii. p. ‘aah 52.—Buf. oif.iv. ps 1.—Pl, enl: 
ZOZe ea 
Paffer Canarienfis, Raii Syn. p. gi. 6. 
Canary Bird, Wi). orn. 262. pl. 46.—Aldiz. i. pl. 65. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Mu. 
G EN ERAL fize that of the Hedge Sparrow, and the length Descriptions. 
from five to five inches and a half. The bill is whitith, or 
pale flefh-colour: colour of the plumage yellow, more or lefs 
mixed with grey: the tail alittle forked: the legs pale.. 
The colour of thefe birds in a ftate of nature is. chiefly grey 
but breaks out into the greateft variety imaginable, from ar- 
* The Canary-bird, which grows white in France, is in the ifland of Tener: ‘fe 
almoft as grey as a Linuet.—Adan/. Voy. p..20. 
tificial. 
