296 
62. 
Var. A. 
MOSAMBIQUE 
: F. 
DEscrRIPTIONs 
PLACE. 
63. 
SERIN F. 
DEscRUPTION, 
Eee TON WiC He 
Serins de Mozambique, P/. ex/. 364. f. 1. 2. 
HIS fpecies is very little lefs than the Canary-bird: in 
length four inches and a half. The bill, and legs, pale: 
the upper parts brown: the feathers of the wings, and tail, edged 
with pale: the under parts, and rump, yellow: over, and between 
the bill and eye, yellow; under the eye a ftreak of the fame. 
The male and female much alike. 
For thefe birds we are indebted to Buffon, who fays they were 
brought from Mozambique, on the eaftern coaft of Africa. And 
this again reminds us of that mentioned by Kolben, in his Hiffory 
of the Cape of Good Hope *, which may not be far different from 
this {pecies ; and I the rather think this, as I have fuch an one in 
my colle€tion from the Cape, which came into my hands under 
the name of Cape Caxzary Bird. 
Fringilla ferinus, Liz. Sy. i. p. 320. 17.—Kram. el. p. 368. 7- 
Loxia ferinus, Scop. ann. i. N° 205. 
Le Serin, Brif. ora. iii. p.179. 50.—PI. enl. 658. f. 1. 
Serinus, Raii Syn. p. 92. 8-—Will. orn. p. 265. pl. 46. 
Leu, Muf. 
I ZE of the fmall Linnet: length near four inches and a half. 
The upper mandible grey brown, the under whitifh: the 
plumage on the upper part of the body brown, mixed with yel- 
lowifh green: beneath, of a greenifh yellow, marked on the fides 
* Vol. iis p. 156. 
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